[dpdk-users] filtering IPv6 packets in hardware

[Matthew Hall]

On Tue, Sep 27, 2016 at 12:06:25PM -0400, Cody Doucette wrote:
> Has anyone encountered this problem before? Any tips on how I could make
> this work -- or even suggestions for better hardware?

In general these problems are very commonplace among the community members. We 
have had many painful discussions on these topics since you only get 9.6 
nanoseconds and only so many opcodes to handle each new frame.

>From the software side the distributor framework could help.

>From the hardware side you have to read all of the data sheets for the chips 
supported by each PMD to find the chip with the right features for your use 
case.

> Thanks!
> Cody

Matthew.