[dpdk-dev] Inputs needed - testing l2fwd

Shankari Vaidyalingam shankari.v2k6 at gmail.com
Wed Mar 25 07:25:53 CET 2015


+dpdk-dev

> Thanks for the response.
>
> I'm using Intel 82545 EM as the network adapter type and not using
> virtio-net
> I also checked whether 82545 NIC is supported by DPDK and found that it is
> supported.
>
> Regards
> Shankari.V
>
> On Wed, Mar 25, 2015 at 10:38 AM, Stephen Hemminger <
> stephen at networkplumber.org> wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 25 Mar 2015 09:40:47 +0530
>> Shankari Vaidyalingam <shankari.v2k6 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > Can anyone please help me whether I'm missing something in the below
>> > exercise
>> >
>> > Regards
>> > Shankari.V
>> >
>> > On Wed, Mar 25, 2015 at 12:25 AM, Shankari Vaidyalingam <
>> > shankari.v2k6 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > > I'm trying to run sample DPDK  applications by injecting packets from
>> an
>> > > external traffic generator.
>> > > I'm not able to get the frames to reach the RX queue of the
>> corresponding
>> > > port and make the PMD detect those packets and get the application
>> process
>> > > them.
>> > >
>> > > My configuration is:
>> > >
>> > >  I'm using Oracle VirtualBox to have 2 virtual network adapters for
>> use in
>> > > the sample application. I have configured both the network adapters
>> in the
>> > > "Bridged Networking" mode.
>> > > When I open the VM I can see the interfaces - eth0 and eth1
>> > > I bound the 2 interfaces to igb_uio driver and then configured the
>> > > hugepage mapping.
>> > > When I try sending the frames from an external source I had set the
>> dest
>> > > MAC to the MAC addr of the ports bound to DPDK.
>> > > But still I'm not able to see either the "Frames received" or "Frames
>> > > dropped" count getting incremented.
>> > >
>> > > I tried googling and tried various options for networking mode as
>> > > (Bridged/Host Only...) but none of them seem to work fine.
>> > >
>> > > I'm sure that I'm missing something.
>> > > Can you please help me in this regard.
>> > >
>> > > Regards
>> > > Shankari.V
>> > >
>> > >
>>
>> VirtualBox has its own version of virtio which is not compatiable
>> with the current version of DPDK virtio driver.
>>
>
>


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