2016-12-16 18:36, Cliff Burdick: > Hi, I wanted to do something like when I'm working on a machine that has an > ixgbe device I can load that driver, but when using machine with no special > NIC, just use a generic "PMD" that would go through the Linux stack. Does > such a thing exist? If not, is there a standard way to test dpdk > applications on servers without a custom PMD?
Yes you can try af_packet or pcap PMD:
http://dpdk.org/doc/quick-start
