[dpdk-dev] Passing VLAN traffic via l2fwd

[Daniel Kaminsky]

Hi James,

Did you try a non-tagged traffic? I suspect this is the limitation of the
l2fwd or the requirements of Spirent. From my experience with Ixia, the L2
forward device must implement the ARP protocol (at least a subset of it).

Also, notice that the l2fwd example sets the destination MAC address to
"02:00:00:00:00:xx" which the Spirent might doesn't like.

Daniel


On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 7:08 AM, James Yu <ypyu2011 at gmail.com> wrote:

> I could not pass tagged traffic through the l2fwd program running inside a
> CentOS VM. The l2fwd program reported sending out all the packets received
> from one port to the other port. But the outside Spirent tester could not
> receive a packet at all. I am wondering maybe the tagged packets are
> dropped somewhere in the rte_em_pmd or in the DPDK library. Anyone knows
> how to pass/send VLAN traffic through the DPDK ?
>
> With tagged SR-IOV ports, Spirent and guest VM CentOS could ping each other
> without using DPDK. Once I used DPDK 1.3.1r2, I encountered issues with
> sending out tagged packets out of DPDK to the host.
>
> I have done the following:
>
> On RHEL6.1 host
> 1. setup the VLAN using "ip link set eth2 vf 0 vlan 3" for port 1 and "ip
> link set eth3 vf 0 vlan 3" for port 2
> [root at cent64x64-137189 ~]# ip link show eth2
> 96: eth2: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc mq state UP qlen
> 1000
>     link/ether 90:e2:ba:2e:af:f0 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
>     vf 0 MAC 52:54:00:f9:9a:90, vlan 3
> [root at cent64x64-137189 ~]# ip link show eth3
> 98: eth3: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc mq state UP qlen
> 1000
>     link/ether 90:e2:ba:2e:af:f1 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
>     vf 0 MAC 52:54:00:30:37:98, vlan 3
>
> 2. virsh configure SR-IOV hostdev
>     <interface type='hostdev' managed='yes'>
>       <mac address='52:54:00:f9:9a:90'/>
>       <source>
>         <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x1a' slot='0x10'
> function='0x0'/>
>       </source>
>       <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x08'
> function='0x0'/>
>     </interface>
>     <interface type='hostdev' managed='yes'>
>       <mac address='52:54:00:30:37:98'/>
>       <source>
>         <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x1a' slot='0x10'
> function='0x1'/>
>       </source>
>       <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x09'
> function='0x0'/>
>     </interface>
>
> [root at cent64x64-137189 ~]# lspci |grep Eth
> 1a:00.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82599EB 10-Gigabit SFI/SFP+
> Network Connection (rev 01)
> 1a:00.1 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82599EB 10-Gigabit SFI/SFP+
> Network Connection (rev 01)
> 1a:10.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82599 Ethernet Controller
> Virtual Function (rev 01)
> 1a:10.1 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82599 Ethernet Controller
> Virtual Function (rev 01)
>
>
> On guest VM
> 1. check all the ports are started up and check their corresponding port
> type. Use the two SR-IOV ports with device type as ixgbevf  for l2fwd
> [root at VirtualADX ~]# lspci |grep Eth
> 00:03.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82540EM Gigabit Ethernet
> Controller (rev 03)
> 00:07.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82540EM Gigabit Ethernet
> Controller (rev 03)
> 00:08.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82599 Ethernet Controller
> Virtual Function (rev 01)
> 00:09.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82599 Ethernet Controller
> Virtual Function (rev 01)
> 00:0a.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82540EM Gigabit Ethernet
> Controller (rev 03)
>
> 2. run this command:
>            /root/l2fwd -c 3 -n 1 -b 000:00:03.0  -b 000:00:07.0 -b
> 000:00:0a.0 -- -q 1 -p 3
>
>     Although the l2fwd forwards all received tagged packets, the Spirent
> tester did not receive any packet at all.
>