Thanks for the answer Cristian, Is there any TX-side packet filtering feature? (or one planned) (I do think it make sense in virtualised environments)
Thanks Gal. On Fri, Mar 27, 2015 at 5:20 PM, Dumitrescu, Cristian < cristian.dumitrescu at intel.com> wrote: > Hi Gal, > > No, flow director is just an RX-side packet filtering NIC feature. > > Regards, > Cristian > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: dev [mailto:dev-bounces at dpdk.org] On Behalf Of Gal Sagie > > Sent: Friday, March 27, 2015 10:44 AM > > To: <dev at dpdk.org> > > Subject: [dpdk-dev] FlowDirector Rules for TX packets > > > > Hello All, > > > > I can define drop filter rules for RX packets using FlowDirector. > > Support for configuring this from CLI is also available using ethtool > with > > the --config-ntuple option > > > > I am wondering, does FlowDirector has any support to drop TX packets? > > (Meaning that i can define rules which are if matched in the TX side will > > not send the packets out) > > > > At least from ethtool it doesn't seems like this is supported.. > > Any idea? > > > > Thanks > > Gal. > -- Best Regards , The G.
