[dpdk-dev] FlowDirector Rules for TX packets

[Dumitrescu, Cristian]

Hi Gal,

No, flow director is just an RX-side packet filtering NIC feature.

Regards,
Cristian

> -----Original Message-----
> From: dev [mailto:dev-bounces at dpdk.org] On Behalf Of Gal Sagie
> Sent: Friday, March 27, 2015 10:44 AM
> To: <dev at dpdk.org>
> Subject: [dpdk-dev] FlowDirector Rules for TX packets
> 
> Hello All,
> 
> I can define drop filter rules for RX packets using FlowDirector.
> Support for configuring this from CLI is also available using ethtool with
> the --config-ntuple option
> 
> I am wondering, does FlowDirector has any support to drop TX packets?
> (Meaning that i can define rules which are if matched in the TX side will
> not send the packets out)
> 
> At least from ethtool it doesn't seems like this is supported..
> Any idea?
> 
> Thanks
> Gal.