On 15.06.2016 18:25, Dumitrescu, Cristian wrote:
>>>> So add a loop-mode to pcap pmd? >>> It would be nice to have an option like "...,rewind=1,...". >> As Cristian points out in >> http://dpdk.org/ml/archives/dev/2016-June/041589.html, the current pmd >> behavior of stopping is the odd man out in the pmd crowd. >> >> Rather than whether to rewind or not, I'd make the number of loops >> configurable, defaulting to forever and 1 being the equal to current >> behavior. >> >> - Panu - > +1 I'm afraid, all packets from pcap file would need to be preloaded to memory. Otherwise, each loop would infer pcap_open/pcap_close(), am I wrong?