Hi, I observed that DPDK kni interface is not able to receive solicited node multicast addressed (derived from the IPv6 address configured on vEth0 interface) when the kni sample app is being run in Ubuntu VM on ESXI server. The only way to have the frames reach the kni interface is by setting the promiscuous mode in dvSwitch. However regular kernel interface with IPv6 address on the same vmxnet3 port works fine without having to set promiscuous mode in the dvSwitch. Has anyone seen this issue before? Any suggestions to have kni interface working with ipv6 addresses in non promiscuous mode of dvSwitch.
Ubuntu version used = Ubuntu 18.04.3 LTS DPDK version: 18.08.1 VMware ESXI 6.5.0 auto@auto_ubuntu18:~/source/dpdk-stable-18.08.1/usertools$ uname -a Linux auto_ubuntu18 4.15.0-74-generic #84-Ubuntu SMP Thu Dec 19 08:06:28 UTC 2019 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux sudo /tmp/kni -l 6-7 -- -P -p 0x1 --config="(0,6,7)" Thanks, Srini
