Once I assigned static MAC address for FVL VF's , it worked. I'm wondering why it didn't work for auto assigned MAC. Should I explicitly configure promiscuous mode for it to work?
Thanks -----Original Message----- From: Zhang, Xiao Sent: Sunday, September 15, 2019 7:42 PM To: Sampath, Amrutha <[email protected]>; [email protected] Subject: RE: no traffic sent/received while testing XL710 with Traffic generator on VM Hi Amrutha, Did you configure the vf to promiscuous mode? You need to configure it to promiscuous mode to get packets with destination not the same as mac of vf. The command is: ip link set dev vf 0 trust on BR, Xiao > -----Original Message----- > From: users [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Sampath, > Amrutha > Sent: Wednesday, September 11, 2019 10:10 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [dpdk-users] no traffic sent/received while testing XL710 > with Traffic generator on VM > > Hi All, > > I have VF's created for the XL710. > I'm using i40e driver version: 2.9.21 and iavf driver: 3.7.53 > > I then run this command , whitelisting XL710 ports. > > /home/userx/dpdk/x86_64-native-linuxapp-gcc/app/testpmd -c 0x00007 -n > 6 -w > 0000:00:08.0 -w 0000:00:09.0 --socket-mem=1024 -- --socket-num=0 --nb- > cores=2 --coremask=0x0006 --rxq=1 --txq=1 -i --mbcache=512 --burst=64 > -- > rxd=2048 --txd=2048 --forward-mode=mac --portmask=0x3 > > > > I see port as up in traffic generator (both ixia and spirent) and > start traffic, but I only see tx on traffic generator end no statistics(rx or > tx) on XL710 VF side. > > > > Is there anything I'm missing? > > > > > > Thanks > > > >
