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From: "Wiles, Keith" <keith.wiles@intel.com>
To: Kumaraparameshwaran Rathnavel <krath@cloudsimple.com>
Cc: "users@dpdk.org" <users@dpdk.org>
Subject: Re: [dpdk-users] Packet Generator
Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2016 14:47:40 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <BDA31AB1-528B-400D-A847-77BEF4220613@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <F2C4FFE6-37E1-4DAB-8890-5253AFEEC636@cloudsimple.com>


> On Dec 15, 2016, at 7:21 AM, Kumaraparameshwaran Rathnavel <krath@cloudsimple.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi All,
> 
> Can you help me in finding how the packet in generated in l2 forwarding functions. I am not able to frame the packet. In L2 packet is Ethernet Header alone  sufficient for communication?

The l2fwd example does not generate packets they are received using the rte_eth_rx_burst() routine and then forwarded to the output port. Just having L2 packet header in a frame should be enough for the l2fwd example.

> 
> Thanking You,
> Param

Regards,
Keith

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2016-12-15 13:21 Kumaraparameshwaran Rathnavel
2016-12-15 14:47 ` Wiles, Keith [this message]

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