Hello Aida,

For testing, I would look into setting up two servers, according to the documentation in the DPDK Test Suite (DTS), https://doc.dpdk.org/dts/gsg/

The physical setup for basic testing is fairly symmetric, with NICs in each server connected back to back.  DTS leverages some tooling/examples included with DPDK, such testpmd, along with external traffic generators like TRex.  This is what we use is most of the community lab setup.

Cheers,

Lincoln