Hi Shankari, On 03/23/2015 04:54 PM, Shankari Vaidyalingam wrote: > Hi > > I'm trying to do a packet capture on the DPDK interface while running l2fwd > sample application and injecting packets from a traffic generator. > I'm getting the below error when I give this command: sudo ./build/l2fw-c > 0x03 -n 2 -- -p 0x03 --vdev > 'eth_pcap0,tx_pcap=/home/controller/pkt_capt/try.pcap' > > [...] > EAL: 0000:00:11.0 not managed by UIO driver, skipping > ./build/l2fwd: unrecognized option '--vdev' > ./build/l2fwd [EAL options] -- -p PORTMASK [-q NQ] > -p PORTMASK: hexadecimal bitmask of ports to configure > -q NQ: number of queue (=ports) per lcore (default is 1) > -T PERIOD: statistics will be refreshed each PERIOD seconds (0 to > disable, 10 default, 86400 maximum) > EAL: Error - exiting with code: 1 > Cause: Invalid L2FWD arguments
Please note the position of "--" in your command line. This is used to separate the arguments of eal and application. As --vdev is an eal argument, it should go before the "--". Regards, Olivier
