From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com>
To: "De Lara Guarch, Pablo" <pablo.de.lara.guarch@intel.com>
Cc: dev@dpdk.org
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] app/testpmd: swap mac in IEEE1588 forwarding
Date: Thu, 10 Dec 2015 22:21:21 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1449792832.Ney0jmXzyU@xps13> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <B27915DBBA3421428155699D51E4CFE202400CD4@IRSMSX103.ger.corp.intel.com>
> > IEEE1588 forwarding mode uses same port to receive and transmit packets.
> > In this mode, the MAC address in the packets are not touched, and
> > therefore, packets could be sent with the same destination MAC address as
> > the MAC address of the port that is transmitting, which causes the packet
> > to be dropped in some NICs.
> >
> > In order to avoid this scenario, MAC addresses are swapped before packet
> > is sent out.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Pablo de Lara <pablo.de.lara.guarch@intel.com>
>
> Acked-by: John McNamara <john.mcnamara@intel.com>
Applied, thanks
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2015-12-10 9:28 Pablo de Lara
2015-12-10 10:18 ` Mcnamara, John
2015-12-10 21:21 ` Thomas Monjalon [this message]
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