From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
To: nan he <nhe295771@gmail.com>
Cc: dev@dpdk.org
Subject: Re: [Bug Report] KNI Module Causes Loopback Interface to Have Incorrect ifindex in Linux 5.4.46
Date: Tue, 20 May 2025 06:49:46 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20250520064947.513b73f9@hermes.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAFohB5uoG8Sx5LXiX8F8QihT=ov2yR5rzgbaVNeodmYedy5S5g@mail.gmail.com>
On Wed, 23 Apr 2025 13:52:39 +0800
nan he <nhe295771@gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear DPDK Developers,
>
> I am reporting an issue encountered in an environment running Linux kernel
> version 5.4.46 with DPDK 19.11. When attempting to run Docker containers in
> bridge mode, the container creation fails consistently. The kmsg indicate a
> crash during the initialization of the loopback device within a new
> *net_namespace*, specifically due to the loopback interface not being
> assigned the expected ifindex of 1.
KNI is no longer supported. One of the reasons was that the KNI
kernel module is not upstream and has lots of bugs.
You found one and it is unlikely to be fixed.
Please use other mechanism such as TAP or virtio-user to inject
packets into the kernel.
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2025-04-23 5:52 nan he
2025-05-20 13:49 ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
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