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From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
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Cc: dev@dpdk.org, Priyankar Ghosh <pghosh@noida.interrasystems.com>,
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Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] Capture packets using DPDK
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On Wed, 23 Sep 2015 18:43:37 +0530
K Rahul <krahul@noida.interrasystems.com> wrote:

> We have downloaded DPDK v2.1.0 and built it with target 
> 'x86_64-native-linuxapp-gcc' using the setup.sh script provided in tools 
> directory. We are using 64-bit Centos 6.5 with kernel version 2.6.32 and 
> we had set the number of hugepages (per node) to 512.  Our capture card 
> is *Broadcom NetXtreme II BCM5709 Gigabit Ethernet* on which we want to 
> use dpdk and the system config is i7 quad-core@3.4Ghz with 
> Hyperthreading ON, which supports 2MB hugepages.

The bnx2x driver only supports the Broadcom 10G cards, not the 1G cards.

If you look at Linux you will see the 1G cards use a different driver (bnx2)
than the 10G cards (bnx2x).