From: Keith Wiles <keith.wiles@intel.com>
To: dev@dpdk.org
Subject: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 2/3] docs:tun/tap PMD information
Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2016 09:10:48 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1473948649-14169-2-git-send-email-keith.wiles@intel.com> (raw)
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Signed-off-by: Keith Wiles <keith.wiles@intel.com>
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+.. BSD LICENSE
+ Copyright(c) 2016 Intel Corporation. All rights reserved.
+ All rights reserved.
+
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+
+Tun/Tap Poll Mode Driver
+========================================
+
+The rte_eth_tap.c PMD creates a device using TUN/TAP interfaces on the local
+host. The PMD allows for DPDK and the host to communicate using a raw device
+interface on the host and in the DPDK application.
+
+The device created is a TAP device, which sends/receives packet in a raw format
+with a L2 header. The usage for a TAP PMD is for connectivity to the local host
+using a TAP interface. When the TAP PMD is initialized it will create a number
+of tap devices in the host accessed via 'ifconfig -a' or 'ip' command. The
+commands can be used to assign and query the virtual like device.
+
+These TAP interfaces can be used with wireshark or tcpdump or Pktgen-DPDK along
+with being able to be used as a network connection to the DPDK application. The
+method enable one or more interfaces is to use the --vdev=eth_tap option on the
+DPDK application command line. Each --vdev=eth_tap option give will create an
+interface named dtap0, dtap1, ... and so forth.
+
+.. code-block:: console
+
+ The interfaced name can be changed by adding the iface=foo0
+ e.g. --vedv=eth_tap,iface=foo0 --vdev=eth_tap,iface=foo1, ...
+
+.. code-block:: console
+
+ Also the speed of the interface can be changed from 10G to whatever number
+ needed, but the interface does not enforce that speed.
+ e.g. --vdev=eth_tap,iface=foo0,speed=25000
+
+After the DPDK application is started you can send and receive packets on the
+interface using the standard rx_burst/tx_burst APIs in DPDK. From the host point
+of view you can use any host tool like tcpdump, wireshark, ping, Pktgen and
+others to communicate with the DPDK application. The DPDK application may not
+understand network protocols like IPv4/6, UDP or TCP unless the application has
+been written to understand these protocols.
+
+If you need the interface as a real network interface meaning running and has
+a valid IP address then you can do this with the following commands:
+
+.. code-block:: console
+
+ sudo ip link set dtap0 up; sudo ip addr add 192.168.0.250/24 dev dtap0
+ sudo ip link set dtap1 up; sudo ip addr add 192.168.1.250/24 dev dtap1
+
+Please change the IP addresses as you see fit.
+
+If routing is enabled on the host you can also communicate with the DPDK App
+over the internet via a standard socket layer application as long as you account
+for the protocol handing in the application.
+
+If you have a Network Stack in your DPDK application or something like it you
+can utilize that stack to handle the network protocols. Plus you would be able
+to address the interface using an IP address assigned to the internal interface.
--
2.8.0.GIT
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-09-15 14:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 59+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-09-15 14:10 [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 1/3] drivers/net:new PMD using tun/tap host interface Keith Wiles
2016-09-15 14:10 ` Keith Wiles [this message]
2016-09-15 14:13 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 2/3] docs:tun/tap PMD information Wiles, Keith
2016-09-15 14:15 ` Wiles, Keith
2016-09-21 2:00 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3] drivers/net:new PMD using tun/tap host interface Keith Wiles
2016-10-04 14:45 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4] " Keith Wiles
2016-10-11 9:40 ` Ferruh Yigit
2016-10-11 11:30 ` Michał Mirosław
2016-10-11 20:56 ` Wiles, Keith
2016-10-12 8:14 ` Michał Mirosław
2016-10-11 11:49 ` Ferruh Yigit
2016-10-11 21:07 ` Wiles, Keith
2016-10-11 12:28 ` Ferruh Yigit
2016-10-11 20:57 ` Wiles, Keith
2016-10-11 21:51 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v5] " Keith Wiles
2016-10-12 14:56 ` Ferruh Yigit
2016-10-12 18:19 ` Wiles, Keith
2016-10-12 19:57 ` Wiles, Keith
2016-10-12 20:54 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v6] " Keith Wiles
2016-10-13 14:41 ` Ferruh Yigit
2016-10-13 15:36 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v7] " Keith Wiles
2016-10-13 16:11 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v8] " Keith Wiles
2016-10-13 16:33 ` Mcnamara, John
2016-10-13 22:03 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v9] " Keith Wiles
2016-10-14 6:41 ` Mcnamara, John
2016-10-14 9:39 ` Ferruh Yigit
2016-11-21 12:56 ` Ferruh Yigit
2016-11-25 19:38 ` Aws Ismail
2016-11-29 21:36 ` Aws Ismail
2016-11-29 22:16 ` Wiles, Keith
2016-12-07 19:38 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v10] drivers/net:new TUN/TAP device PMD Keith Wiles
2016-12-07 20:15 ` Aws Ismail
2016-12-09 18:16 ` Ferruh Yigit
2016-12-09 19:05 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v11] " Keith Wiles
2016-12-12 12:39 ` Vasily Philipov
2016-12-12 14:24 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v12] net/tap: new " Keith Wiles
2016-12-12 14:38 ` Keith Wiles
2016-12-12 19:13 ` Marc
2016-12-12 21:09 ` Wiles, Keith
2016-12-13 13:54 ` Ferruh Yigit
2017-01-20 12:14 ` Ferruh Yigit
2017-01-20 14:25 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] net/tap: fix IFF_MULTI_QUEUE in older kernels not found Keith Wiles
2017-01-20 14:30 ` Keith Wiles
2017-01-20 16:11 ` Ferruh Yigit
2017-01-20 17:37 ` Thomas Monjalon
2016-09-15 14:10 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 3/3] drivers/net:build support for new tap device driver Keith Wiles
2016-09-16 7:36 ` Panu Matilainen
2016-09-16 14:46 ` Wiles, Keith
2016-09-16 16:22 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2] drivers/net:new PMD using tun/tap host interface Keith Wiles
2016-09-18 13:25 ` Yuanhan Liu
2016-09-18 16:20 ` Wiles, Keith
2016-09-19 0:29 ` Yuanhan Liu
2016-09-19 15:56 ` Wiles, Keith
2016-09-20 3:54 ` Yuanhan Liu
2016-09-20 4:05 ` Yuanhan Liu
2016-09-21 1:32 ` Wiles, Keith
2016-09-21 2:13 ` Yuanhan Liu
2016-09-21 8:24 ` Thomas Monjalon
2016-09-21 23:55 ` Wiles, Keith
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