[dpdk-dev] Does I210 NIC support Flow director filters?

[Bruce Richardson]

On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 11:21:08PM -0500, Kamraan Nasim wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I've been using DPDK fdir filter APIs for 82599 NIC(Niantic) and they work
> very well.
> 
> Was wondering if I these could also be used for I210, 1Gbps NICs?
> 
> The other option is to use 5tuple filters(rte_eth_dev_add_5tuple_filter
> <http://dpdk.org/doc/api/rte__ethdev_8h.html#aaa28adafa65a4f47d4aeceaf1b08381b>),
> however these do not support IPv6 yet.
> 
> 
> Have people in the community had any luck with configuring L3/L4 hardware
> filters for the I210 NIC?
> 
> Thanks,
> Kam

Flow director filters are not supported for 1G NICs. Sorry.

/Bruce