[dpdk-dev] L2/L3 FWD App

Farrukh Aftab Khan Farrukh.Khan at xflowresearch.com
Fri Jun 28 14:00:49 CEST 2013


Hi,

The problem was that VT was enabled in the BIOS. I went through FAQs and
saw the solution there. Just replying back on my thread in case someone
runs into this problem. This resolved my issue, the application is working
fine.

Thanks and best regards.

-
Farrukh Aftab Khan

On Tue, Jun 25, 2013 at 11:15 PM, Farrukh Aftab Khan <
Farrukh.Khan at xflowresearch.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I am a newbie at DPDK, just trying to get some basic applications to run
> to understand it. One of the apps that I have been trying to run is
> provided with the source code i.e. L3 FWD App. Are there any changes which
> I should be hard coding in the file for it to work?
>
> From what I understand, I have to hard code a rule for LPM (<dst_ip>,
> depth/subnet, output interface) in "ipv4_l3fwd_route_array". The
> destination IP is matched with the destination IP field of the incoming
> packet and the output port refers to the NIC port itself. I have tried
> running this application this way, but I do not see any packets being
> forwarded to my receiver.
>
> Are there any other changes I need to make?
> I am using Ostinato as the traffic generator. I am generating ICMP packets
> with dst_MAC=MAC address of the NIC port.
>
> Any help or heads up would be appreciated, thanks.
> Best regards
>
> -
> Farrukh Aftab Khan
>
>
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