Re: [vpp-dev] VPP does not detect NIC automatically

2018-01-03 Thread Li, Charlie
Thanks Dave for the clarification! Regards, Charlie Li From: Dave Barach (dbarach) [mailto:dbar...@cisco.com] Sent: Wednesday, January 3, 2018 1:41 PM To: Li, Charlie ; vpp-dev@lists.fd.io Subject: RE: VPP does not detect NIC automatically Dear Charlie, Vpp won't touch an interface if it has an

Re: [vpp-dev] VPP does not detect NIC automatically

2018-01-03 Thread Dave Barach (dbarach)
Dear Charlie, Vpp won't touch an interface if it has an associated Linux kernel interface which is up, and/or has an address configured on it. Manually unbinding the interface - as you did - makes the Linux kernel interface disappear. Accidentally whitelisting a host's management ethernet would