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Hi,

In DPDK how should a raw ethernet frame converted to rte_mbuf * ?  For
example if I have an ARP packet:

void * arp_pkt

how should this be converted to an rte_mbuf * for transmission, does a
simple cast suffice ?

Cheers,
Pepe

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