[dpdk-dev] Promiscuous Mode Feature

[Ajit Khaparde]

On Wed, Jun 24, 2020 at 1:03 PM Thomas Monjalon <thomas at monjalon.net> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> A bit of context: David is going to implement a test in DTS
> for promiscuous mode:
> http://doc.dpdk.org/guides/nics/features.html#promiscuous-mode
>
> 24/06/2020 18:18, David Liu:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > From my understanding, the promiscuous mode feature will verify the
> > functionality of promiscuous mode when it is on or off.
>
> You need to check in which condition the promiscuous mode can be enabled.
> Some contexts may forbid this mode. untrusted VF? flow isolation mode?
>
But there is no way other than some logs to indicate these.
Maybe we should add some state in port info to indicate this?


>
> > The plan for testing this feature is as follows:
> >
> > Sending over a packet to verify the ports are working properly before any
> > testing. First to verify the promiscuous mode is enabled. With the
> > promiscuous being enabled, send over a packet and check if the packet
> will
> > be received when sending it to a different destination mac address than
> the
> > host/card. Then disable the promiscuous mode. The packet will only be
> > received if the mac address is the destination mac address. Otherwise,
> the
> > test case will be considered a failure.
>
> I assume you will test positive and negative in both on/off cases.
>
> > Please let me know if there is anything I need to add on or if there are
> > certain cases I need to be aware of.
>
> Anyone else has ideas about what to test and corner cases?
>
> >
> > Thanks,
> > David Liu
> > UNH Interoperability Lab
>
>
>