2014-10-20 19:24, Alex Markuze:
> I'm trying to send packets from an application to it self, meaning smac ==
> dmac.
> I'm working with intel 82599 virtual function. But it seems that these
> packets are lost.
>
> Is there a software/hw limitation I'm missing here (some additional
> anti-spoofing)? AFAIK modern NICs with sriov are mini switches so the hw
> loopback should work, at least thats the theory.
I think you should look at these commits:
ixgbe: add Tx->Rx loopback mode for 82599
http://dpdk.org/browse/dpdk/commit/?id=db035925617
app/testpmd: add loopback topology
http://dpdk.org/browse/dpdk/commit/?id=3e2006d6186
--
Thomas
