Greetings! I've been playing with dpdk on my desktop for some time and decided to finally test in on a server. It has a plenty of nics:
dev at box:~$ lspci |grep Ether 01:00.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82599EB 10-Gigabit SFI/SFP+ Network Connection (rev 01) 01:00.1 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82599EB 10-Gigabit SFI/SFP+ Network Connection (rev 01) 03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82599EB 10-Gigabit SFI/SFP+ Network Connection (rev 01) 03:00.1 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82599EB 10-Gigabit SFI/SFP+ Network Connection (rev 01) 05:00.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82599EB 10-Gigabit SFI/SFP+ Network Connection (rev 01) 05:00.1 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82599EB 10-Gigabit SFI/SFP+ Network Connection (rev 01) 0c:00.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82576 Gigabit Network Connection (rev 01) 0c:00.1 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82576 Gigabit Network Connection (rev 01) 0e:00.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82576 Gigabit Network Connection (rev 01) 0e:00.1 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82576 Gigabit Network Connection (rev 01) 10:00.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82576 Gigabit Network Connection (rev 01) 10:00.1 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82576 Gigabit Network Connection (rev 01) 12:00.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82574L Gigabit Network Connection 82:00.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82599EB 10-Gigabit SFI/SFP+ Network Connection (rev 01) 82:00.1 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82599EB 10-Gigabit SFI/SFP+ Network Connection (rev 01) 88:00.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82599EB 10-Gigabit SFI/SFP+ Network Connection (rev 01) 88:00.1 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82599EB 10-Gigabit SFI/SFP+ Network Connection (rev 01) 8a:00.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82599EB 10-Gigabit SFI/SFP+ Network Connection (rev 01) 8a:00.1 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82599EB 10-Gigabit SFI/SFP+ Network Connection (rev 01) I connect to the server using ssh through one of gigabit ports. The problem is that no matter which cards I blacklist with -b option then starting my dpdk application it takes away all the interfaces from the kernel and later returns blacklisted ones. This disrupts my ssh session and I can no longer connect to the server. Any ideas how to overcome this? Best regards, Dmitry Vyal.