[dpdk-dev] Sending & Receiving Packets

2014-01-20 Thread Wiles, Roger Keith
Hi Rishi, Normally I use 'start ' pktgen> start 0 # Start port 0 sending pktgen> start 0,3 # Start port 0 and 3 sending pktgen> start 0-3# start port 0, 1, 2 and 3 send packets. pktgen> start all # start sending on all ports pktgen> stp # stop sen

[dpdk-dev] Sending & Receiving Packets

2014-01-20 Thread Sharma, RishiX
Hi Keith, Just to give you the background .I need to test the packet throughput performance of one of my device using DPDK . The DUT is connected to my Linux host machine with one of the port and I want to run the Pktgen on my host machine to send the packets to the DUT where DPDK (Testpmd app

[dpdk-dev] Sending & Receiving Packets

2013-06-24 Thread Wiles, Roger Keith
Hi Peter, Pktgen can send the packets but they have to be configured correctly. DPDK has a couple of applications two are L2fwd and L3fwd. These two applications can forward L2 or L3 packets from one port to another. These applications will not answer an ARP request or PING packet, so you have

[dpdk-dev] Sending & Receiving Packets

2013-06-24 Thread Wiles, Roger Keith
Hi Peter, When DPDK is running on the server it takes control of the ports, which means the network stack that would answer a ping (ICMP Echo) would not be attached to the port any more. You would have to add code to DPDK as an application to receive the ICMP Echo packet and respond with a ICMP

[dpdk-dev] Sending & Receiving Packets

2013-06-23 Thread Peter Chen
I was wondering how I can send/receive packets from my computer to my server which has dpdk running. Since what seems to happen is that dpdk binds to the ethernet device, what would be its IP address? For example how would I send a ping from one computer to my server with dpdk binded to the NIC?