[dpdk-dev] Inputs needed - testing l2fwd

Shankari Vaidyalingam shankari.v2k6 at gmail.com
Wed Mar 25 05:10:47 CET 2015


Hi,

Can anyone please help me whether I'm missing something in the below
exercise

Regards
Shankari.V

On Wed, Mar 25, 2015 at 12:25 AM, Shankari Vaidyalingam <
shankari.v2k6 at gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm trying to run sample DPDK  applications by injecting packets from an
> external traffic generator.
> I'm not able to get the frames to reach the RX queue of the corresponding
> port and make the PMD detect those packets and get the application process
> them.
>
> My configuration is:
>
>  I'm using Oracle VirtualBox to have 2 virtual network adapters for use in
> the sample application. I have configured both the network adapters in the
> "Bridged Networking" mode.
> When I open the VM I can see the interfaces - eth0 and eth1
> I bound the 2 interfaces to igb_uio driver and then configured the
> hugepage mapping.
> When I try sending the frames from an external source I had set the dest
> MAC to the MAC addr of the ports bound to DPDK.
> But still I'm not able to see either the "Frames received" or "Frames
> dropped" count getting incremented.
>
> I tried googling and tried various options for networking mode as
> (Bridged/Host Only...) but none of them seem to work fine.
>
> I'm sure that I'm missing something.
> Can you please help me in this regard.
>
> Regards
> Shankari.V
>
>


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