[dpdk-dev] KNI automatic IP configuration

[Zhou, Danny]

e1000 driver supports many different NIC devices. 

Do you know your NIC device type or device_id?

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Olivier Deme [mailto:odeme at druidsoftware.com]
> Sent: Sunday, April 05, 2015 1:03 AM
> To: Zhou, Danny
> Cc: dev at dpdk.org
> Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] KNI automatic IP configuration
> 
> Currently I’m using the e1000 PMD driver.
> 
> Thanks,
> Olivier.
> 
> > On 4 Apr 2015, at 12:51, Zhou, Danny <danny.zhou at intel.com> wrote:
> >
> > Which NIC device are you using now?
> >
> > KNI does not provide Ethtool support for all NICs supported by the Poll-Mode Drivers.
> >
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: dev [mailto:dev-bounces at dpdk.org] On Behalf Of Olivier Deme
> >> Sent: Friday, April 03, 2015 10:03 PM
> >> To: dev at dpdk.org
> >> Subject: [dpdk-dev] KNI automatic IP configuration
> >>
> >> Hi all,
> >>
> >> Is it possible on Linux to get the Linux network manager to automatically configure a KNI virtual network interface as soon as it
> >> comes up?
> >> I haven’t been able to get Fedora to apply the configuration under /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-veth0 file upon
> starting
> >> my DPDK application.
> >>
> >> Executing ifup veth0 manually works but somehow the fedora network manager seems to have an issue to apply the if cfg
> config
> >> automatically.
> >> In the system logs I can see something along the lines “kni doesn’t support ethtool”. Is this related?
> >>
> >> I also tried ifplugd but without success.
> >>
> >> Many thanks for your help,
> >>
> >> Olivier.
> >