On Thu, 14 May 2015 21:38:24 +0000 "Assaad, Sami (Sami)" <sami.assaad at alcatel-lucent.com> wrote:
> Hello, > > My Hardware consists of the following: > - DL380 Gen 9 Server supporting two Haswell Processors (Xeon CPU E5-2680 v3 > @ 2.50GHz) > - An x540 Ethernet Controller Card supporting 2x10G ports. > > Software: > - CentOS 7 (3.10.0-229.1.2.el7.x86_64) > - DPDK 1.8 > > I want all the network traffic received on the two 10G ports to be > transmitted to my VM. The issue is that the Virtual Function / Physical > Functions have setup the internal virtual switch to only route Ethernet > packets with destination MAC address matching the VM virtual interface MAC. > How can I configure my virtual environment to provide all network traffic to > the VM...i.e. set the virtual functions for both PCI devices in Promiscuous > mode? > > [ If a l2fwd-vf example exists, this would actually solve this problem ... Is > there a DPDK l2fwd-vf example available? ] > > > Thanks in advance. > > Best Regards, > Sami Assaad. This is a host side (not DPDK) issue. Intel PF driver will not allow guest (VF) to go into promiscious mode since it would allow traffic stealing which is a security violation.
