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2016-01-25 20:33, Thomas Monjalon:

> 2016-01-25 20:31, Klaus Degner:
>> Does anyone know other inexpensive HW that has at least 2x DPDK
>> compatible NICs ?
> KVM + virtio is known to be very cheap ;)
<joke>DNFTT</joke>

Yes, it makes the demo as cheap as the HW it runs on top !!!

Let me try to sharpen my question: If there is NO HW at the installation
point and you need a cheap DPDK device.... ?

Productive answers welcome !