[dpdk-dev] [dpdk-stable] [PATCH] examples/ipv4_multicast: enable multicast promiscuous for all port

Thomas Monjalon thomas at monjalon.net
Mon Oct 29 03:01:35 CET 2018


24/10/2018 10:50, Wang, Dong1:
> Tested it with 82599 PF.
> 
> Acked-by: Wang Dong <dong1.wang at intel.com>

The correct tag is probably Tested-by

> From: Zhao1, Wei 
> 
> Add Wang Dong in the mailing list, he has test this patch.
> 
> > > This example has not been enable for receiving multicast packet, so 
> > > it will drop multicast packet. Users must send packet with ether MAC 
> > > destination address the same as pf port MAC address, in order to 
> > > forward packet successfully, but this is an example for forwarding
> > > ipv4 multicastpacket. So calling function
> > > rte_eth_promiscuous_enable() or rte_eth_allmulticast_enable() can 
> > > enable promiscuous mode of all multicast packet. And aslo, DPDK has 
> > > rte API function of rte_eth_dev_set_mc_addr_list() for setting 
> > > specific multicast filter table for specific multicast IP address, 
> > > but this example do not support this configuration, so it need to be 
> > > enable multicast promiscuous mode instead.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Wei Zhao <wei.zhao1 at intel.com>

Applied, thanks




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