You have been subscribed to a public bug: Hello, It would be quite interesting to have a package for installing rte_kni.ko as a dkms module.
To explain the purpose of the kni module, here is a quote from the dpdk documentation: " The DPDK Kernel NIC Interface (KNI) allows userspace applications access to the Linux* control plane. The benefits of using the DPDK KNI are: - Faster than existing Linux TUN/TAP interfaces (by eliminating system calls and copy_to_user()/copy_from_user() operations. - Allows management of DPDK ports using standard Linux net tools such as ethtool, ifconfig and tcpdump. - Allows an interface with the kernel network stack. " I'm not aware of any package in ubuntu or debian official repos which are using this module but a least there is my application (https://github.com/Gandi/packet-journey) which is using it. There is also some dpdk examples which require it to run, and it may be a dependency for other dpdk libraries in further dpdk versions. Note: I would be happy to propose my application as a package if I have this .deb available (it is a hard dependency in my case). ** Affects: dpdk (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Assignee: ChristianEhrhardt (paelzer) Status: New -- Feature: adding rte_kni kernel module as dkms https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1592786 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
