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| author |   Luca Boccassi <luca.boccassi@gmail.com> | 2018-08-14 18:52:30 +0100 |
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| committer | Luca Boccassi <luca.boccassi@gmail.com> | 2018-08-14 18:53:17 +0100 |
| commit | b63264c8342e6a1b6971c79550d2af2024b6a4de (patch) | |
| tree | 83114aac64286fe616506c0b3dfaec2ab86ef835 /doc/guides/nics/pcap_ring.rst | |
| parent | ca33590b6af032bff57d9cc70455660466a654b2 (diff) | |
New upstream version 18.08upstream/18.08
Change-Id: I32fdf5e5016556d9c0a6d88ddaf1fc468961790a
Signed-off-by: Luca Boccassi <luca.boccassi@gmail.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'doc/guides/nics/pcap_ring.rst')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/guides/nics/pcap_ring.rst | 25 |
1 files changed, 24 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/doc/guides/nics/pcap_ring.rst b/doc/guides/nics/pcap_ring.rst index 7fd063c9..879e5430 100644 --- a/doc/guides/nics/pcap_ring.rst +++ b/doc/guides/nics/pcap_ring.rst @@ -71,11 +71,19 @@ The different stream types are: tx_pcap=/path/to/file.pcap * rx_iface: Defines a reception stream based on a network interface name. - The driver reads packets coming from the given interface using the Linux kernel driver for that interface. + The driver reads packets from the given interface using the Linux kernel driver for that interface. + The driver captures both the incoming and outgoing packets on that interface. The value is an interface name. rx_iface=eth0 +* rx_iface_in: Defines a reception stream based on a network interface name. + The driver reads packets from the given interface using the Linux kernel driver for that interface. + The driver captures only the incoming packets on that interface. + The value is an interface name. + + rx_iface_in=eth0 + * tx_iface: Defines a transmission stream based on a network interface name. The driver sends packets to the given interface using the Linux kernel driver for that interface. The value is an interface name. @@ -122,6 +130,21 @@ Forward packets through two network interfaces: $RTE_TARGET/app/testpmd -l 0-3 -n 4 \ --vdev 'net_pcap0,iface=eth0' --vdev='net_pcap1;iface=eth1' +Enable 2 tx queues on a network interface: + +.. code-block:: console + + $RTE_TARGET/app/testpmd -l 0-3 -n 4 \ + --vdev 'net_pcap0,rx_iface=eth1,tx_iface=eth1,tx_iface=eth1' \ + -- --txq 2 + +Read only incoming packets from a network interface and write them back to the same network interface: + +.. code-block:: console + + $RTE_TARGET/app/testpmd -l 0-3 -n 4 \ + --vdev 'net_pcap0,rx_iface_in=eth1,tx_iface=eth1' + Using libpcap-based PMD with the testpmd Application ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ |