Hi Damjan, Thanks for your CLI pointers. It seems there is a limit of 100 packets which would work against my requirements. If you have any suggestions there before I look into the code to tinker with the 100, please do let me know.
Regards -Prashant On Thu, Jul 26, 2018 at 4:24 PM, Damjan Marion <dmar...@me.com> wrote: > Dear Prashant, > > Try "pcap rx trace" and "pcap tx trace" command. > > https://git.fd.io/vpp/tree/src/plugins/dpdk/device/cli.c#n373 > > Also please note that VPP packet generator (pg) supports both pcap play and > capture... > > -- > Damjan > > On 26 Jul 2018, at 12:42, Prashant Upadhyaya <praupadhy...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi Damjan, > > I was hoping to use the dpdk-pdump utility (built as part of DPDK) to > generate the pcap files for traffic passing through the various ports. > I have used that successfully with pure vanilla DPDK primary processes > (non VPP usecases). It runs as a secondary process. > > Well, my requirement is to generate pcap's for ports on both tx and rx > -- if you have an alternate VPP-core solution, that would be great. > > Regards > -Prashant > > > On Wed, Jul 25, 2018 at 11:32 PM, Damjan Marion <dmar...@me.com> wrote: > > > Dear Prashant, > > We had lot of operational issues with dpdk leftover files in the past, so > we took special care to made them disappear ASAP. > > Even if they are present you will not be able to use secondary process, > we simply don't support that use case. Secondary process will not be > able to access buffer memory as buffer memory is allocated by VPP and not by > DPDK. > > Please note that VPP is not application built on top of DPDK, for us DPDK is > just > source of device drivers wit a bit of weight around them. Typical VPP > feature > code can work even without DPDK being present. > > If you explain your use case we might be able to advise you how to approach > your problem > in a way native to VPP, without relying on DPDK legacy features. > > Regards, > > -- > Damjan > > On 25 Jul 2018, at 13:11, Prashant Upadhyaya <praupadhy...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi, > > I am running VPP with DPDK plugin. > I see that when I normally run other non VPP DPDK applications, they > create a file called /var/run/.rte_config > But VPP running as a DPDK application (and calling rte_eal_init) does > not create this file. > > There are consequences of the above in certain usecases where > secondary processes try to look at this file. > > Can somebody advise why this file is not created when VPP is run with > DPDK plugin. Or what needs to be done so that it does get created, or > perhaps it is getting created somewhere that I am not aware of. I am > running VPP as root. > > Regards > -Prashant > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- > Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. > > View/Reply Online (#9929): https://lists.fd.io/g/vpp-dev/message/9929 > Mute This Topic: https://lists.fd.io/mt/23811660/675642 > Group Owner: vpp-dev+ow...@lists.fd.io > Unsubscribe: https://lists.fd.io/g/vpp-dev/unsub [dmar...@me.com] > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- > > >
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