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Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] vhost [query] : support for multiple ports and non
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On Wed, Aug 17, 2016 at 03:54:21PM +0530, Pankaj Chauhan wrote:
> My use case is that my machine/board which is not sitting as end node of
> network but somewhere in between like an router. So the traffic looks
> something like this:
> 
> Physical port 1 -> Enter VM(s) through virtio -> exit from physical port 2

I'm not quite sure testpmd has this kind of support or not, routing the
data from a specific port to another specific port. Zhihong might have
the answer.

	--yliu

> For above use case i need a vhost-back-end which supports multiple physical
> ports.
> 
> Thanks for the suggestion of vhost-pmd ( i was not aware of that), i'll
> explore possibility of using it for my use case of multiple physical ports.