Thanks Damjan, I had a temporary brain-freeze, I do see there is a max parameter as well.
Regards -Prashant On Thu, Jul 26, 2018 at 4:46 PM, Prashant Upadhyaya <praupadhy...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Damjan, > > Thanks for your CLI pointers. > It seems there is a limit of 100 packets which would work against my > requirements. > If you have any suggestions there before I look into the code to > tinker with the 100, please do let me know. > > Regards > -Prashant > > > On Thu, Jul 26, 2018 at 4:24 PM, Damjan Marion <dmar...@me.com> wrote: >> Dear Prashant, >> >> Try "pcap rx trace" and "pcap tx trace" command. >> >> https://git.fd.io/vpp/tree/src/plugins/dpdk/device/cli.c#n373 >> >> Also please note that VPP packet generator (pg) supports both pcap play and >> capture... >> >> -- >> Damjan >> >> On 26 Jul 2018, at 12:42, Prashant Upadhyaya <praupadhy...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Hi Damjan, >> >> I was hoping to use the dpdk-pdump utility (built as part of DPDK) to >> generate the pcap files for traffic passing through the various ports. >> I have used that successfully with pure vanilla DPDK primary processes >> (non VPP usecases). It runs as a secondary process. >> >> Well, my requirement is to generate pcap's for ports on both tx and rx >> -- if you have an alternate VPP-core solution, that would be great. >> >> Regards >> -Prashant >> >> >> On Wed, Jul 25, 2018 at 11:32 PM, Damjan Marion <dmar...@me.com> wrote: >> >> >> Dear Prashant, >> >> We had lot of operational issues with dpdk leftover files in the past, so >> we took special care to made them disappear ASAP. >> >> Even if they are present you will not be able to use secondary process, >> we simply don't support that use case. Secondary process will not be >> able to access buffer memory as buffer memory is allocated by VPP and not by >> DPDK. >> >> Please note that VPP is not application built on top of DPDK, for us DPDK is >> just >> source of device drivers wit a bit of weight around them. Typical VPP >> feature >> code can work even without DPDK being present. >> >> If you explain your use case we might be able to advise you how to approach >> your problem >> in a way native to VPP, without relying on DPDK legacy features. >> >> Regards, >> >> -- >> Damjan >> >> On 25 Jul 2018, at 13:11, Prashant Upadhyaya <praupadhy...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> I am running VPP with DPDK plugin. >> I see that when I normally run other non VPP DPDK applications, they >> create a file called /var/run/.rte_config >> But VPP running as a DPDK application (and calling rte_eal_init) does >> not create this file. >> >> There are consequences of the above in certain usecases where >> secondary processes try to look at this file. >> >> Can somebody advise why this file is not created when VPP is run with >> DPDK plugin. Or what needs to be done so that it does get created, or >> perhaps it is getting created somewhere that I am not aware of. I am >> running VPP as root. >> >> Regards >> -Prashant >> -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- >> Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. >> >> View/Reply Online (#9929): https://lists.fd.io/g/vpp-dev/message/9929 >> Mute This Topic: https://lists.fd.io/mt/23811660/675642 >> Group Owner: vpp-dev+ow...@lists.fd.io >> Unsubscribe: https://lists.fd.io/g/vpp-dev/unsub [dmar...@me.com] >> -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- >> >> >>
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