[dpdk-users] problem with an additional MAC address on i40e

[Alex Kiselev]

Hi Beilei.

> What's the firmware version you used? Did you try testpmd?
I've tried testpmd and didn't find any issues too. Therefore there 
are some specific initialization steps that I do in my application 
that cause the issue, or there are steps that I don't do, but I should.

Also, I've figured out that the address 01:00:5E:00:00:12 has 
nothing to do with my problem. The problem is a VRRP virtual MAC address 
00:00:5E:00:01:0A itself. The problematic packets I can't receive 
have source mac address 00:00:5E:00:01:0A and once that address is added 
to an interface as an additional MAC I stop receiving them on that interface.

Could you please give me any ideas where should I start to find out what 
prevents my application from receiving those packets?

Thanks.

> I tried testpmd with X710 on my side, the steps are:
testpmd>> set fwd rxonly
testpmd>> set verbose 1
testpmd>> start
testpmd>> mac_addr add 0 00:00:5E:00:01:0A
testpmd>> stop
testpmd>> start

> After that, packets with destination 01:00:5E:00:00:12 still can be received.

> Best Regards
> Beilei Xing

>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Alex Kiselev [mailto:kiselev99 at gmail.com]
>> Sent: Tuesday, May 22, 2018 6:42 PM
>> To: users at dpdk.org; Xing, Beilei <beilei.xing at intel.com>; Zhang, Qi Z
>> <qi.z.zhang at intel.com>
>> Subject: problem with an additional MAC address on i40e

>> Hi.

>> I am facing an issue trying to receive packets destined to the MAC address
>> ipv4_mcast_12 01:00:5E:00:00:12.

>> The problem is that once I add to a port additional MAC address
>> 00:00:5E:00:01:0A using rte_eth_dev_mac_addr_add(), the port stop
>> receiving packets destinated to the address 01:00:5E:00:00:12. When there
>> is no additinal mac on a port everything is ok. Also, there is no such issue
>> when I am using intel X520 nic (ixgbe), I am facing this behavior only with
>> X710 (i40e) intel NIC.

>> DPDK ver dpdk-stable-17.11.1


>> --
>> Alex Kiselev.




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 Alex                          mailto:kiselev99 at gmail.com