Hello, With ixgbe driver, it seems mbuf packet_type is always 0 when vPMD code (SSE) is enabled (tried 16.11 & master).
doc/guides/nics/ixgbe.rst seems a bit out of date, so I don't know if this is expected or not. When vPMD is disabled, either at compile time or runtime, the field is correctly set. -- Maxime