From: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>
To: Sahil Khandelwal <sahilkhandelwal05@gmail.com>
Cc: dev@dpdk.org
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] Error while running basic forward sample application
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2020 15:38:04 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200416143804.GB1695@bricha3-MOBL.ger.corp.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CACKbjtZM4kXYF+i8_-bYZZ5NvSUeHMJxCoGaQ0jOTm0ev38EKQ@mail.gmail.com>
On Thu, Apr 16, 2020 at 05:19:34PM +0530, Sahil Khandelwal wrote:
> I am trying to run the basic forwarding sample application with following
> arguments
>
> sudo ./build/basicfwd -l 1 -n 4
>
> The error says number of ports must be even
>
> By ports does it mean by number of nic in my system?
In many cases, yes. However, some some nics have multiple ports/interfaces on
them. Testpmd, and some other sample apps, don't have this restriction -
the basicfwd app does just to keep the code as short and as simple as
possible.
/Bruce
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2020-04-16 11:49 Sahil Khandelwal
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