On 2014/10/16 19:45, Walukiewicz, Miroslaw wrote: > I have a question regarding unbinding Linux interface from EAL. > > This feature was present up to dpdk 1.4 and next it was removed. > > It was available under RTE_EAL_UNBIND_PORTS flag. > > Is there a possibility to get this feature back in the next releases? > > Unbinding interfaces from EAL makes possible reading network interface > parameters like IP address, MTU, VLAN configuration from dpdk applications. > > When Linux interface is unbound before application start this information is > lost for application.
The same problem was found. Might an alternative be to actually bind the NICs to DPDK uio driver like the dpdk_nic_bind.py scipts after getting that NIC parameters in your application . > > Mirek > >
