Hello, I am trying to override api-segment prefix as well as override cli-listen socket file [1]. However I am not able to connect to VPP via vpp_api_test over the socket file.
Is this expected behavior? How to connect to vpp via vpp_api_test over custom socket file? I am aiming for controlling more than one VPP instance (that is why prefix) via vpp_api_test. Is that possible? Thank you. My startup.conf unix { cli-listen /run/vpp/cli-vpp1.sock log /tmp/vpe.log nodaemon } api-segment { prefix vpp1 } cpu { corelist-workers 2 main-core 1 } dpdk { dev 0000:07:00.0 } 1) Connecting to vppctl works: $ sudo vppctl -s /run/vpp/cli-vpp1.sock sh ver vpp v18.04-release built by root on f10ad4364e3e at Wed Apr 25 16:06:03 UTC 2018 2) Connecting to vpp_api_test does not work $ sudo vpp_api_test socket-name /run/vpp/cli-vpp1.sock clib_socket_init: connect (fd 3, '/run/vpp/cli-vpp1.sock'): Protocol wrong type for socket WARNING: socket connection failed [1] https://wiki.fd.io/view/VPP/Progressive_VPP_Tutorial [2] https://wiki.fd.io/view/VPP/Command-line_Arguments#.22api-trace.22_parameters Peter Mikus