[dpdk-dev] Crafting a packet for transmission.

Vladimir Medvedkin medvedkinv at gmail.com
Thu Mar 13 12:48:47 CET 2014


Hi,

At first look at https://github.com/Pktgen/Pktgen-DPDK

If you need your custom app:
- alloc mbuf with rte_pktmbuf_alloc
- fill up L2-4 headers fields (look at rte_pktmbuf_append func for example)
- send packet via rte_eth_tx_burst

Regards,
Vladimir


2014-03-13 15:15 GMT+04:00 sabu kurian <sabu2kurian at gmail.com>:

> Hai friends,
>
> My requirement is to create a packet generator. So I could use
>
> struct rte_mbuf * m;
>
> to create a single packet holder. So how am I suppose to fill in the packet
> details like the MAC source , destination and also the IP source ,
> destination (in case of IPv4 packets).
>
> Following the l2fwd example, which has got the TAP interface to write the
> data to and read the data from.
>
> using the ether_hdr , one could read the MAC address from the packet
>
> eth = rte_pktmbuf_mtod(m, struct ether_hdr *);
> tmp = &eth->s_addr.addr_bytes[0];
>
> But how am I suppose to craft a packet and supply in all these details , so
> that I could sent the packet via rte_eth_tx_burst
>
>
> Thanks in advance
>


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