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From: Gal Sagie <gal.sagie@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] FlowDirector Rules for TX packets
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Thanks for the answer Cristian,

Is there any TX-side packet filtering feature? (or one planned)
(I do think it make sense in virtualised environments)

Thanks
Gal.


On Fri, Mar 27, 2015 at 5:20 PM, Dumitrescu, Cristian <
cristian.dumitrescu@intel.com> wrote:

> Hi Gal,
>
> No, flow director is just an RX-side packet filtering NIC feature.
>
> Regards,
> Cristian
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: dev [mailto:dev-bounces@dpdk.org] On Behalf Of Gal Sagie
> > Sent: Friday, March 27, 2015 10:44 AM
> > To: <dev@dpdk.org>
> > Subject: [dpdk-dev] FlowDirector Rules for TX packets
> >
> > Hello All,
> >
> > I can define drop filter rules for RX packets using FlowDirector.
> > Support for configuring this from CLI is also available using ethtool
> with
> > the --config-ntuple option
> >
> > I am wondering, does FlowDirector has any support to drop TX packets?
> > (Meaning that i can define rules which are if matched in the TX side will
> > not send the packets out)
> >
> > At least from ethtool it doesn't seems like this is supported..
> > Any idea?
> >
> > Thanks
> > Gal.
>



-- 
Best Regards ,

The G.