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From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com>
To: Alex Markuze <alex@weka.io>
Cc: dev@dpdk.org
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] nic loopback
Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2014 17:32:24 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1495199.x8BsTd8nYt@xps13> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAKfHP0VYMjcHuMhS814j+R_TQjWFeJ3Zkffm4oaQ7+ZZXTdsJQ@mail.gmail.com>

2014-10-20 19:24, Alex Markuze:
> I'm trying to send packets from an application to it self, meaning smac  ==
> dmac.
> I'm working with intel 82599 virtual function. But it seems that these
> packets are lost.
> 
> Is there a software/hw limitation I'm missing here (some additional
> anti-spoofing)? AFAIK modern NICs with sriov are mini switches so the hw
> loopback should work, at least thats the theory.

I think you should look at these commits:

ixgbe: add Tx->Rx loopback mode for 82599
	http://dpdk.org/browse/dpdk/commit/?id=db035925617
app/testpmd: add loopback topology
	http://dpdk.org/browse/dpdk/commit/?id=3e2006d6186

-- 
Thomas

  parent reply	other threads:[~2014-10-21 15:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-10-20 16:24 Alex Markuze
2014-10-21  1:18 ` Liang, Cunming
2014-10-21 15:16   ` Alex Markuze
2014-10-22  3:33     ` Liang, Cunming
2014-10-22  4:37       ` [dpdk-dev] FW: " Zhu, Heqing
2014-10-22  7:42         ` alex
2014-10-22  8:04           ` Liang, Cunming
2014-10-21 15:32 ` Thomas Monjalon [this message]
2014-10-21 15:54   ` [dpdk-dev] " Alex Markuze
2014-10-21 20:14     ` Thomas Monjalon

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