I suspect you’re more likely to get a response on a VPP mailing list instead of 
an OVS one.

--Justin


> On Apr 6, 2020, at 10:05 AM, Giridharan, Ganesan <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> 
> Good morning. This is my first post here looking for some guidance on 
> building a certain type of test environment. I will try to concise it as much 
> as possible.
>  
> VPP in a Ubuntu 18.04 VM
>  
> Configure VPP with either “dpdk” vhost mode or native VPP mode. Does not 
> really matter for my testbed.
> Start a container running “testpmd” in “txonly” mode. I basically use this to 
> send packets to VPP bridge.
> Start a container running a dpdk application that just picks up packet from 
> rte_eth_rx_burst() and dumps it in the log.
> Both containers use “virtio-user” as “vdev” to connect to VPP’s “vhost” 
> sockets.
> Both interfaces are placed on a single bridge.
>  
> Case-1: Using DPDK vhost
> I am not seeing any packets sent by “testpmd” on this bridge.
> I have set “pcap trace rx intfc VHostEthernet1, think rx on this would be tx 
> on “testpmd”.
> I am not observing any packet indication.
>  
> Case-2: Using VPP native vhost
> Enable pcap trace on VirtualEthernet0/0/1
> Start testpmd to send packets.
> Packet indication is received on container-2.
> But all frames are NULL ( i.e contents are all zero ). But the length 
> indicates some data.
>  
> Thanks
> --GG
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