Hi Thomas,

Thanks for the clarification and explanation. Much appreciated.

I guess it becomes a little hard for people who have just started working with DPDK to figure that out.

Thanks for the help.

Best regards.

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Farrukh Aftab Khan

On Fri, Jun 28, 2013 at 1:28 PM, Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com> wrote:

28/06/2013 08:39, dvr :

> I'm confused which type of ethernet card that DPDK require.

OK. Since this type of question has already been asked and will probably be
asked again and again, I will explain it on the website.

For the record, here is how you should search for a supported NIC:

# grep -r 'RTE_PCI_DEV_ID_DECL.*82575' lib
RTE_PCI_DEV_ID_DECL(PCI_VENDOR_ID_INTEL, E1000_DEV_ID_82575EB_COPPER)
RTE_PCI_DEV_ID_DECL(PCI_VENDOR_ID_INTEL, E1000_DEV_ID_82575EB_FIBER_SERDES)
RTE_PCI_DEV_ID_DECL(PCI_VENDOR_ID_INTEL, E1000_DEV_ID_82575GB_QUAD_COPPER)

So your NIC 82575EB is supported.

As you can see, the source code is a good documentation.
To all users, please try to search in it before asking questions.
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Thomas