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From: raman geetha gopalakrishnan <glowingsun@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Reg DPDK with unsupported NIC
Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2017 15:43:24 +0530
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Thanks Keith For the quick Reply.

On Tue, Mar 14, 2017 at 3:22 PM, Wiles, Keith <keith.wiles@intel.com> wrote:

>
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> > On Mar 14, 2017, at 5:29 PM, raman geetha gopalakrishnan <
> glowingsun@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hi ,
> >
> > Please find my query, Currently i am planning to develop DPDK APP (linux
> > env). I do not have DPDK supported NIC. Till then i would still like to
> > develop DPDK APP and want DPDK  to use OS interface to TX/RX packets from
> > NIC. How can i make it? I went through KNI and my understanding is you
> > cannot use it - is this correct?
> >
> > In what way i can still develop DPDK APP with non supported NIC till get
> > the DPDK NIC.
>
> Take a look at the TAP PMD driver and look at the doc file in the doc
> directory.
>
> It will not be high performance but it can work nicely using tap and some
> like socat.
> >
> > Thanks
> > Raman
>