Add note about PMD expects the network interfaces provided to be up,
documented behavior to set expectations right.
Also added minor fix.
Signed-off-by: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yi...@intel.com>
Acked-by: John McNamara <john.mcnam...@intel.com>
---
Cc: Vipin Varghese <vipin.vargh...@intel.com>
Cc: Michael Glynn <michael.j.gl...@intel.com>
v2: Convert "notes" subsection to ..note:: format
---
doc/guides/nics/pcap_ring.rst | 8 +++++++-
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/doc/guides/nics/pcap_ring.rst b/doc/guides/nics/pcap_ring.rst
index de47f68cf..7fd063c94 100644
--- a/doc/guides/nics/pcap_ring.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/nics/pcap_ring.rst
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ Libpcap and Ring Based Poll Mode Drivers
========================================
In addition to Poll Mode Drivers (PMDs) for physical and virtual hardware,
-the DPDK also includes two pure-software PMDs. These two drivers are:
+the DPDK also includes pure-software PMDs, two of these drivers are:
* A libpcap -based PMD (librte_pmd_pcap) that reads and writes packets using
libpcap,
- both from files on disk, as well as from physical NIC devices using
standard Linux kernel drivers.
@@ -148,6 +148,12 @@ Otherwise, the first 512 packets from the input pcap file
will be discarded by t
--vdev 'net_pcap0,rx_pcap=file_rx.pcap,tx_pcap=file_tx.pcap' \
-- --port-topology=chained --no-flush-rx
+.. note::
+
+ The network interface provided to the PMD should be up. The PMD will return
+ an error if interface is down, and the PMD itself won't change the status
+ of the external network interface.
+
Rings-based PMD
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
--
2.14.3
