[dpdk-users] port 0 not present on board error

[Pragash Vijayaragavan]

Hi,

I am still getting some errors;

port 0 is not present on the board.

pragash at revvit:~/dpdk-stable-17.05.2/examples/l3fwd/build$ ./l3fwd -l 1-4
--no-huge -- -p 0x3 -L --config="(0,0,1),(1,0,2)" --ipv6 --parse-ptype
EAL: Detected 20 lcore(s)
EAL: Probing VFIO support...
EAL: Started without hugepages support, physical addresses not available
EAL: PCI device 0000:02:00.0 on NUMA socket 0
EAL:   probe driver: 8086:1583 net_i40e
EAL: Requested device 0000:02:00.0 cannot be used
EAL: PCI device 0000:02:00.1 on NUMA socket 0
EAL:   probe driver: 8086:1583 net_i40e
EAL: PCI device 0000:04:00.0 on NUMA socket 0
EAL:   probe driver: 8086:1583 net_i40e
EAL: Requested device 0000:04:00.0 cannot be used
EAL: PCI device 0000:04:00.1 on NUMA socket 0
EAL:   probe driver: 8086:1583 net_i40e
EAL: PCI device 0000:08:00.0 on NUMA socket 0
EAL:   probe driver: 8086:1521 net_e1000_igb
EAL: PCI device 0000:08:00.1 on NUMA socket 0
EAL:   probe driver: 8086:1521 net_e1000_igb
L3FWD: Longest-prefix match selected
L3FWD: IPV6 is specifiednsoft parse-ptype is enabled
port 0 is not present on the board
EAL: Error - exiting with code: 1
  Cause: check_port_config failed


Thanks,

Pragash Vijayaragavan
Grad Student at Rochester Institute of Technology
email : pxv3620 at rit.edu
ph : 585 764 4662


On Mon, Dec 11, 2017 at 6:21 AM, Hristo.Trifonov <Hristo.Trifonov at ul.ie>
wrote:

> Not showing "Active" status is perfectly normal.
>
> The problem here is that you will probably need to supply extra parameters.
> This is from your previous posts:
>
> pragash at revvit<http://dpdk.org/ml/listinfo/users>:~/dpdk-stable-17.05.2/examples/l3fwd/build$
> ./l3fwd -l 0-4 --no-huge -- -p 0x1
>
> Try changing to:
>
> pragash at revvit<http://dpdk.org/ml/listinfo/users>:~/dpdk-stable-17.05.2/examples/l3fwd/build$
> ./l3fwd -l 1-4(core 0 is usually master lcore) --no-huge -- -p 0x3
> -L(optional) -config="(0,0,1),(1,0,2)" --parse-type
>
>
>
> This worked for me. You can check the docs here
> http://dpdk.org/doc/guides/sample_app_ug/l3_forward.html for all options.
>
>
> If you don't specify the "config" option the app won't even start
> returning the "check port config" error. You must also supply the
> "-parse-type" cmd parameter otherwise app complaints and fails to start
> with the following error "port 0 cannot parse packet type, please add
> -parse-type"
>
> Hristo T.
>