[dpdk-users] UDP packet source IP address modified in the KVM host

Anupama Laxmi anupamalaxmi4 at gmail.com
Mon Sep 24 18:43:38 CEST 2018


Its KVM SRIOV

On Wed, Sep 19, 2018 at 9:34 PM Stephen Hemminger <
stephen at networkplumber.org> wrote:

> On Wed, 19 Sep 2018 08:57:52 +0530
> Anupama Laxmi <anupamalaxmi4 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > When the DPDK UDP packets pass from guest machine to host using KVM SRIOV
> > the source IP address in the IP header of the UDP packet is changed.The
> > changed IP address is not configured in the host machine either.The
> > ifconfig output doesn't show this IP.How this IP address can change in
> the
> > host?what configurations do I need to check and how to prevent this IP
> > address change.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Anupama
>
> Are you really using KVM SRIOV or is it a virtio device with NAT?
>


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