05/01/2018 12:09, Finn Christensen: > From: Thomas Monjalon > Which property can help to distinguish Napatech ports? > Can you use class=eth,dev_port=X ? > The dev_port property will use /sys/class/net/DEV/dev_port on Linux. Is it > OK for you? > > Actually, what we were thinking of was using the mac property in the class > category to distinguish our ports. > For instance: > -w bus=pci,id=0000:01:00.0/class=eth,mac=00:11:22:33:44:55 > or simply: > -w class=eth,mac=00:11:22:33:44:55
The problem with the mac property is that it cannot be used for white/blacklisting in DPDK because the MAC is not known before port initialization. > We will not be able to support the dev_port property, that will not work for > us. > At least not for now.
