On Thu, May 14, 2015 at 04:47:19PM -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote: > 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.
Could you maybe try passing the PF directly into the VM, rather than a VF based off it? Since you seem to want all traffic to go to the one VM, there seems little point in creating a VF on the device, and should let the VM control the whole NIC directly. Regards, /Bruce