From: sujith sankar <sujithsankar2@gmail.com>
To: dev@dpdk.org, declan.doherty@intel.com
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] net/bonding - need for 8023ad slave to be in promisc mode
Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2017 11:47:56 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAMTiEwemZrqE0xKEy9x4YNFS0sZPzaKk7rh6rEJhANG-82M=kA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAMTiEwccAxxM11kdk1hR6e2nhxcf4aAXApQgudcg_OYqMAENqg@mail.gmail.com>
Hi Declan,
Got your name from the maintainers' list.
Could you please help me with this?
Thanks,
-Sujith
On Mon, Feb 27, 2017 at 1:40 PM, sujith sankar <sujithsankar2@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> Could someone clarify the need to put mode 4 bonding slaves in promiscuous
> mode?
>
> 840 void
> 841 bond_mode_8023ad_activate_slave(struct rte_eth_dev *bond_dev, uint8_t
> slave_id)
> 842 {
> .
> .
> .
> 878 /* use this port as agregator */
> 879 port->aggregator_port_id = slave_id;
> 880 rte_eth_promiscuous_enable(slave_id);
>
>
> The Linux kernel mode bonding driver gets it working by assigning the
> bond/primary slave MAC address to the rest of the slaves. Is there a reason
> for not using this method?
>
> I tried this using my app on DPDK 16.04 on 82599, but could not get rx
> working. It would be great if someone could help me with this.
>
> Thanks,
> -Sujith
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