Hi all, My application takes over one/multiple ethernet port(s) in a linux system and creates KNI interfaces corresponding to them. So if there was eth0 and eth1 in the non-dpdk mode, once I take over the ports using dpdk, I create eth0 and eth1 KNI interfaces. As far as the linux network managers are concerned, they dont really know about it (or care I guess) - for example the dhcp client tries getting a dhcp address over these KNI interfaces and succeeds.
Now if my application crashes, I dont want the entire network management subsystem on linux and the hotplugs and this and that to get alarmed and routes to vanish from the route table etc.. etc.. The application will crash and come back up real quick, nothing needs to change in that meantime. Any way to achieve that ? I just want to keep the KNI around even if my app vanishes. Rgds, Gopa.
