Hi, Did you enable trust mode on vf? If trust is off on host, promiscuous can’t enabled from vm.
Ruinan Hu ruinan...@casa-systems.com (857) 209-1955 > On Oct 15, 2018, at 14:26, Dey, Souvik <so...@rbbn.com> wrote: > > Hi All, > I am currently facing issues with getting the multicast IPv6 > packets when using the i40evf pmd. > > I do see there is a limitation mentioned in the release notes of DPDK that > > 16.27. I40e VF may not receive packets in the promiscuous mode > Description: > Promiscuous mode is not supported by the DPDK i40e VF driver when using the > i40e Linux kernel driver as host driver. > Implication: > The i40e VF does not receive packets when the destination MAC address is > unknown. > Resolution/Workaround: > Use a explicit destination MAC address that matches the VF. > Affected Environment/Platform: > All. > Driver/Module: > Poll Mode Driver (PMD). > > > Do this mean that multicast promiscuous mode is also not supported ? I am > currently facing issues with receiving packets multicast packets for IPv6 > which is making IPv6 to fail with i40evf pmd. > I am currently using 17.11.2 DPDK with the Centos 7.5 and i40e 2.4.6 version > on the host. I have the rte_eth_allmulticast_enable() also set for the port > but still I see all multicast packets are not reaching the pmd. > Also if promiscuous mode has to be turned off then how should we add > multicast address to the PF from the VF ? > -- > Regards, > Souvik
