FIX: set host physical interface mac address to rdma interface

Reason is that the traffic generator is initialized with MAC addresses
of physical interfaces in the suite setup while rdma interfaces
are created later.

Change-Id: I2cf182cde20f14778624740a1f0467096c336306
Signed-off-by: Jan Gelety <jgelety@cisco.com>

2 files changed, 26 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/resources/api/vpp/supported_crcs.yaml b/resources/api/vpp/supported_crcs.yaml
index f7a943b371..fd4ba73cc9 100644
--- a/resources/api/vpp/supported_crcs.yaml
+++ b/resources/api/vpp/supported_crcs.yaml
@@ -245,6 +245,8 @@
     sw_interface_set_l2_bridge_reply: '0xe8d4e804'  # dev
     sw_interface_set_l2_xconnect: '0x95de3988'  # dev
     sw_interface_set_l2_xconnect_reply: '0xe8d4e804'  # dev
+    sw_interface_set_mac_address: '0x6aca746a'  # perf
+    sw_interface_set_mac_address_reply: '0xe8d4e804'  # perf
     sw_interface_set_rx_placement: '0xdb65f3c9'  # perf
     sw_interface_set_rx_placement_reply: '0xe8d4e804'  # perf
     # ^^ see tc01-64B-1c-dot1q-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2memif-1dcr-mrr above
diff --git a/resources/libraries/python/InterfaceUtil.py b/resources/libraries/python/InterfaceUtil.py
index 5724af01c0..ad76eac4f8 100644
--- a/resources/libraries/python/InterfaceUtil.py
+++ b/resources/libraries/python/InterfaceUtil.py
@@ -492,6 +492,27 @@ class InterfaceUtil:
         return if_data.get(u"l2_address")
 
     @staticmethod
+    def vpp_set_interface_mac(node, interface, mac):
+        """Set MAC address for the given interface.
+
+        :param node: VPP node to set interface MAC.
+        :param interface: Numeric index or name string of a specific interface.
+        :param mac: Required MAC address.
+        :type node: dict
+        :type interface: int or str
+        :type mac: str
+        """
+        cmd = u"sw_interface_set_mac_address"
+        args = dict(
+            sw_if_index=InterfaceUtil.get_interface_index(node, interface),
+            mac_address=L2Util.mac_to_bin(mac)
+        )
+        err_msg = f"Failed to set MAC address of interface {interface}" \
+            f"on host {node[u'host']}"
+        with PapiSocketExecutor(node) as papi_exec:
+            papi_exec.add(cmd, **args).get_reply(err_msg)
+
+    @staticmethod
     def tg_set_interface_driver(node, pci_addr, driver):
         """Set interface driver on the TG node.
 
@@ -1183,6 +1204,9 @@ class InterfaceUtil:
         with PapiSocketExecutor(node) as papi_exec:
             sw_if_index = papi_exec.add(cmd, **args).get_sw_if_index(err_msg)
 
+        InterfaceUtil.vpp_set_interface_mac(
+            node, sw_if_index, Topology.get_interface_mac(node, if_key)
+        )
         InterfaceUtil.add_eth_interface(
             node, sw_if_index=sw_if_index, ifc_pfx=u"eth_rdma",
             host_if_key=if_key