[dpdk-users] Speed of NIC is showing only 100Mbps though it is 10G

[Pattan, Reshma]

Hi,

> -----Original Message-----
> From: users [mailto:users-bounces at dpdk.org] On Behalf Of Mariappan
> Rajendran
> Sent: Thursday, March 24, 2016 11:41 AM
> To: users at dpdk.org
> Subject: [dpdk-users] Speed of NIC is showing only 100Mbps though it is 10G
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I am new to DPDK, as a first thing, i ran l2fwd app. I saw that it is detecting the
> port0 NIC card, but the speed is showing as 100Mbps, though the NIC card is
> 10G speed capable.
> What could be the reason ?  Below is the log. I connected the NIC card to my
> LAN using cat6 cable, to reach this NIC card from my other machines in LAN.
> 
> FYI -
> 
> root at VFSR4:/home/hadmin/dpdk-2.2.0/examples/l2fwd# ./build/l2fwd -c f -n 4
> -- -q 8 -p ffff
> EAL: PCI device 0000:01:00.0 on NUMA socket 0
> EAL:   probe driver: 8086:1528 rte_ixgbe_pmd
> EAL:   PCI memory mapped at 0x7f7367600000
> EAL:   PCI memory mapped at 0x7f7369167000
> PMD: eth_ixgbe_dev_init(): MAC: 4, PHY: 3

What is the NIC  type?  If it is 10GB, Ex: 82599ES 10-Gigabit SFI/SFP+ ? 
you should get above log as ex: "PMD: eth_ixgbe_dev_init(): MAC: 2, PHY: 18, SFP+: 5"
Will you  provide the  "./tools/dpdk_nic_bind.py  --status" output.

Thanks
Reshma