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Could you please point me to a sample doing this ? All the sample i have
seen are initializing the eal and that involves initializing the nics. Is
there a sample ? Can you mock up some code ?

plz plzzz :-)


On Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 3:42 AM, Vivek Soni <tellviveks@gmail.com> wrote:

> Yes, It is very well possible to run DPDK without dependency on the NIC.
> But it all depends what you want to do.
> The two DPDK applications can communicate using the ring library provided
> by DPDK. In case there is no NIC, DPDK provides pure software based PMDs
> which can be used on systems without a NIC or with unsupported NIC using
> standard kernel drivers.
>
> Hope it helps.
>
> Regards,
> Vivek
>
>
> On Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 1:49 AM, Ymo Lists <ymolists@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Is this a faq ???
> >
> >
> > On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 1:21 PM, Ymo Lists <ymolists@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > 1) I have two apps that need to communicate on the same machine . Is it
> > > possible to have these two apps communicating via dpdk without
> > referencing
> > > a nic ?
> > >
> > > 2) The apps need to run on an amazon vm. How can you run dpdk on an
> > amazon
> > > vm with only one nic if the above is not possible ?
> > >
> >
>