HI Baptiste, Testpmd enables promisc mode by default, so it can receive all the packets. You can disable it. Could you provide what flows are you adding to get the packets, if you provide the testpmd logs it would be useful.
Rgds, Kishore -----Original Message----- From: Wicht, Baptiste <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, August 5, 2026 5:28 AM To: [email protected] Cc: [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected] Subject: RE: Re: How to get RTE flows working with BNXT PMD? Hi team After digging into testpmd and the debug logs, I have found that testpmd always turn on promiscuous mode. Once we turned it on in our program, we could get flows working. Without promiscuous, all packets were dropped when TruFlow was enabled (with or without flows). Is it mandatory to run promiscuous mode on BNXT? Is there another way around that? Best regards Baptiste -----Original Message----- From: Kishore Padmanabha <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, July 20, 2026 4:27 PM To: Wicht, Baptiste <[email protected]>; [email protected]; Ajit Kumar Khaparde <[email protected]> Cc: [email protected] Subject: [EXTERNAL] RE: Re: How to get RTE flows working with BNXT PMD? Hi Baptiste, As 26.07 RC is working in freebsd, I am assuming you are good with it. As for CQE mode, it is not supported with Truflow currently. Hence if you enable cqe_mode it shall disable Truflow and you cannot add rte flows that I mentioned earlier. In bnxt_get_config(), there is check for bnxt_compressed_rx_cqe_mode_enabled(), if you remove that check it should work but this is something we have not supported officially. Thanks, Kishore -----Original Message----- From: Wicht, Baptiste <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, July 20, 2026 5:10 AM To: [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected] Cc: [email protected] Subject: RE: Re: How to get RTE flows working with BNXT PMD? Hi David, Kishore, DPDK users, I have been able to reproduce your example with dpdk-testpmd compiled from 26.07 RC, the only "release" that is working on FreeBSD for BNXT. I could get the same results you did, thanks! I do observe some special behavior though. In our tests, we have to use cqe_mode=1 because otherwise we do not get any unicast packets (they are all filtered). However, in dpdk-testpmd, if I use cqe_mode=1, I do not get any packets counted and the filter you have proposed cannot be create. Is that behavior normal with cqe_mode=1? Thanks Baptiste -----Original Message----- From: David Marchand <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, July 13, 2026 11:10 AM To: Kishore Padmanabha <[email protected]>; Ajit Khaparde <[email protected]> Cc: [email protected]; Wicht, Baptiste <[email protected]> Subject: Re: How to get RTE flows working with BNXT PMD? Caution: This email originated from outside the organization. Do not click links or open attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe. On Mon, 13 Jul 2026 at 10:59, Wicht, Baptiste <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi DPDK users > > We are trying to get some RTE flows working with the BNXT PMD (on a Broadcom P2200G). However, we cannot get any flows working. We have tried both legacy and TruFlow modes, but neither seem to be working. Legacy mode only let us do RSS for total number of queues (not a subset) and TruFlow mode ends up filtering all unicast packets. > > Ultimately, we are trying to separate some kind of traffic (like UDP) > to a set of RSS queues and the rest of the traffic to another set of RSS queues. > > Is that something that can be achieved with BNXT? Better to ask the bnxt maintainers directly. Kishore? Ajit? -- David Marchand
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