From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-bk0-x22b.google.com (mail-bk0-x22b.google.com [IPv6:2a00:1450:4008:c01::22b]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 417842E8C for ; Tue, 25 Jun 2013 14:12:53 +0200 (CEST) Received: by mail-bk0-f43.google.com with SMTP id jm2so4448591bkc.2 for ; Tue, 25 Jun 2013 05:13:06 -0700 (PDT) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=google.com; s=20120113; h=from:organization:to:subject:date:user-agent:cc:references :in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding :message-id:x-gm-message-state; bh=blWJ2BkuG03AW1G5SwRl38zk3XEtR+E9pNJao3VBoGk=; b=RBkJiNZGMwpdmjq5cxW1rf9Gblw+jPPT+JrL9bO6SKLGkCohVPznNs+fkiXIZ8gMi5 l9Y5afcplTcy+ZnmCFo41sUziWlDc5d+12ddhNA3MaIRY1Dbz52jV0ZOYdvYHj7dahZ9 j7WYL4lrkOxphIWjVODUZDNVotz2Nl/gloJ0FybqA4c8aCU8H8fQXSAVgCCGrsGtpUAC MOTFcGtishGt0YvHDOi9Wfz7iasjRLX89wCSbHr2mxDl/b/EfjTGHqccudRGTxTi0EuP eJY//XG2/cNbUx0FR6sNDm+/pRH2EafYkrNbmXQVn3tBjAHxG1zmlfBla+kx6NX0/fHH IokA== X-Received: by 10.204.66.133 with SMTP id n5mr26527bki.38.1372162386295; Tue, 25 Jun 2013 05:13:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from angus.localnet (6wind.net2.nerim.net. [213.41.180.237]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id ok9sm6057829bkb.8.2013.06.25.05.13.04 for (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Tue, 25 Jun 2013 05:13:05 -0700 (PDT) From: Thomas Monjalon Organization: 6WIND To: Vecham Vidya Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2013 14:13:03 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.7 (Linux/3.2.0-4-amd64; KDE/4.8.4; x86_64; ; ) References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201306251413.03798.thomas.monjalon@6wind.com> X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQmX1SWuiTdAr5VduD1Jf92pF1UGXd7PkBN7oyca0GqfONsK6nO/UCeEWKt2YhuHjTVHc2qI Cc: announce@dpdk.org Subject: Re: [dpdk-announce] rules on this list (was: dpdk) X-BeenThere: announce@dpdk.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: DPDK release announcements List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2013 12:12:53 -0000 25/06/2013 12:49, Vecham Vidya : > I recently started with dpdk. I am thinking to purchase intel NIC > cards.whether two NIC cards of 82576 Gigabit Ethernet Controllers are > enough? Please don't use the list "announce" to ask questions. This list is dedicated to important announcements such as new releases. I could tell you to ask your question to dev@dpdk.org, but I think you should better read the documentation before. Quick answer: 1 NIC is sufficient to do networking experiments. 2 NICs are convenient for loop testing. -- Thomas