Re: [vpp-dev] Questions about AF_PACKET and VNET_DEVICE_CLASS Functions

2017-03-22 Thread Damjan Marion
> On 20 Mar 2017, at 20:25, Jon Loeliger wrote: > > Folks, > > I am trying to understand a bit more about the "host" interface > for some AF_PACKET interfaces. > > Currently, there is a single API call to create an AF_PACKET interface. > It simultaneously sets the HW_ADDR (ie, MAC address) of

Re: [vpp-dev] VPP Python API for create host-interface ?

2017-03-22 Thread Shravan Ambati
Hi Keith, Sorry I forgot to mention earlier I did create the veth pair using “ip link” and the other end is linked to a network namespace using netns. I was able to create the host-interface on the vpp cli using sh-4.2# vppctl create host-interface veth0-craft0 sh-4.2# vppctl show int

[vpp-dev] vpp-plugins RPM dependency

2017-03-22 Thread Feng Pan
Hi All, With latest master builds of VPP (on Centos with rpm repo), it seems like it's necessary to install vpp-plugins package for vpp to start, without it, I get the following error when running vpp (with default config file): vlib_plugin_early_init:360: plugin path /usr/lib/vpp_plugins vlib_ca

Re: [vpp-dev] vpp-plugins RPM dependency

2017-03-22 Thread Dave Barach (dbarach)
Simply remove the “dpdk” stanza from /etc/vpp/startup.conf if you want to run vpp without the dpdk plugin. Thanks… Dave From: vpp-dev-boun...@lists.fd.io [mailto:vpp-dev-boun...@lists.fd.io] On Behalf Of Feng Pan Sent: Wednesday, March 22, 2017 1:47 PM To: vpp-dev Subject: [vpp-dev] vpp-plugin

Re: [vpp-dev] vpp-plugins RPM dependency

2017-03-22 Thread Ed Warnicke
Commenting out the dpdk stanza is a great workaround but we may want to look at bit more closely at the issue... as installing the vpp project should result in an out of the box runnable vpp. Ed On Wed, Mar 22, 2017 at 11:44 AM, Dave Barach (dbarach) wrote: > Simply remove the “dpdk” stanza fro

Re: [vpp-dev] vpp-plugins RPM dependency

2017-03-22 Thread Burt Silverman
I was tempted to reply to Feng's post that I know what the dependency relationship is: it is circular. But I remembered https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PjIzbvT6Q8c and figured I had better let others handle this one! On Wed, Mar 22, 2017 at 2:46 PM, Ed Warnicke wrote: > Commenting out the dpdk s

Re: [vpp-dev] vpp-plugins RPM dependency

2017-03-22 Thread Feng Pan
So this would suggest that VPP by default (that is, by doing 'yum install vpp') will not have dpdk support, and vpp-plugins must also be installed to add it, I would think dpdk plugin should be either packaged or installed together with VPP by default, and can be disabled if desired. In any case,

[vpp-dev] VPP 17.04 RC1 - stable/1704 pulled

2017-03-22 Thread otroan
All, The stable/1704 branch has been pulled and tags have been laid. Master is now open again for all changes. With regards to stable/1704 (from the release wiki): Once we've pulled the 17.04 release throttle We need to be disciplined with respect to bugfix commits. Here are a few common-sense