Yes, this is for DPDK is designed for. Fast data transfer between two machines. you can try to run L2/L3 fwd on one machine and pktgen on another machine.
DPDK provide you framework for accessing the packet from NIC. On top of that you have to write Client/Server Code. You can use open source library also. On Mon, Aug 8, 2016 at 2:10 PM, Sandeep Rayapudi <rayapudisandeep at gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to understand if data can be exchanged between two different > DPDK applications running as different processes. This may be a dumb > question but I couldn't find a way going through the documentation. > > Ultimately, I want to achieve the following: > - Develop two standalone DPDA applications - client and server > - Send a simple hello world message between them > - Run these two applications on different Docker containers > - Repeat the case in containers scenario. > > Please let me know what modules / features I can use in DPDK to achieve > this. > > Thank you. > -- Rgds, Nishant
