along with being able to be used as a network connection to the DPDK
application. The method enable one or more interfaces is to use the
``--vdev=net_tap0`` option on the DPDK application command line. Each
-``--vdev=net_tap1`` option give will create an interface named dtap0, dtap1,
+``--vdev=net_tap1`` option given will create an interface named dtap0, dtap1,
and so on.
The interface name can be changed by adding the ``iface=foo0``, for example::
--vdev=net_tap0,iface=foo0,speed=25000
+Normally the PMD will generate a random MAC address, but when testing or with
+a static configuration the developer may need a fixed MAC address style.
+Using the option ``mac=fixed`` you can create a fixed known MAC address::
+
+ --vdev=net_tap0,mac=fixed
+
+The MAC address will have a fixed value with the last octet incrementing by one
+for each interface string containing ``mac=fixed``. The MAC address is formatted
+as 00:'d':'t':'a':'p':[00-FF]. Convert the characters to hex and you get the
+actual MAC address: ``00:64:74:61:70:[00-FF]``.
+
It is possible to specify a remote netdevice to capture packets from by adding
``remote=foo1``, for example::
/*-
* BSD LICENSE
*
- * Copyright(c) 2016 Intel Corporation. All rights reserved.
+ * Copyright(c) 2016-2017 Intel Corporation. All rights reserved.
* All rights reserved.
*
* Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
#define ETH_TAP_IFACE_ARG "iface"
#define ETH_TAP_SPEED_ARG "speed"
#define ETH_TAP_REMOTE_ARG "remote"
+#define ETH_TAP_MAC_ARG "mac"
+#define ETH_TAP_MAC_FIXED "fixed"
#define FLOWER_KERNEL_VERSION KERNEL_VERSION(4, 2, 0)
#define FLOWER_VLAN_KERNEL_VERSION KERNEL_VERSION(4, 9, 0)
ETH_TAP_IFACE_ARG,
ETH_TAP_SPEED_ARG,
ETH_TAP_REMOTE_ARG,
+ ETH_TAP_MAC_ARG,
NULL
};
static int
eth_dev_tap_create(struct rte_vdev_device *vdev, char *tap_name,
- char *remote_iface)
+ char *remote_iface, int fixed_mac_type)
{
int numa_node = rte_socket_id();
struct rte_eth_dev *dev;
pmd->txq[i].fd = -1;
}
+ if (fixed_mac_type) {
+ /* fixed mac = 00:64:74:61:70:<iface_idx> */
+ static int iface_idx;
+ char mac[ETHER_ADDR_LEN] = "\0dtap";
+
+ mac[ETHER_ADDR_LEN - 1] = iface_idx++;
+ rte_memcpy(&pmd->eth_addr, mac, ETHER_ADDR_LEN);
+ } else {
+ eth_random_addr((uint8_t *)&pmd->eth_addr);
+ }
+
tap_kernel_support(pmd);
if (!pmd->flower_support)
return 0;
}
rte_memcpy(&pmd->eth_addr, ifr.ifr_hwaddr.sa_data,
ETHER_ADDR_LEN);
- } else {
- eth_random_addr((uint8_t *)&pmd->eth_addr);
}
return 0;
return 0;
}
+static int
+set_mac_type(const char *key __rte_unused,
+ const char *value,
+ void *extra_args)
+{
+ if (value &&
+ !strncasecmp(ETH_TAP_MAC_FIXED, value, strlen(ETH_TAP_MAC_FIXED)))
+ *(int *)extra_args = 1;
+ return 0;
+}
+
/* Open a TAP interface device.
*/
static int
int speed;
char tap_name[RTE_ETH_NAME_MAX_LEN];
char remote_iface[RTE_ETH_NAME_MAX_LEN];
+ int fixed_mac_type = 0;
name = rte_vdev_device_name(dev);
params = rte_vdev_device_args(dev);
if (ret == -1)
goto leave;
}
+
+ if (rte_kvargs_count(kvlist, ETH_TAP_MAC_ARG) == 1) {
+ ret = rte_kvargs_process(kvlist,
+ ETH_TAP_MAC_ARG,
+ &set_mac_type,
+ &fixed_mac_type);
+ if (ret == -1)
+ goto leave;
+ }
}
}
pmd_link.link_speed = speed;
RTE_LOG(NOTICE, PMD, "Initializing pmd_tap for %s as %s\n",
name, tap_name);
- ret = eth_dev_tap_create(dev, tap_name, remote_iface);
+ ret = eth_dev_tap_create(dev, tap_name, remote_iface, fixed_mac_type);
leave:
if (ret == -1) {
RTE_PMD_REGISTER_PARAM_STRING(net_tap,
ETH_TAP_IFACE_ARG "=<string> "
ETH_TAP_SPEED_ARG "=<int> "
+ ETH_TAP_MAC_ARG "=" ETH_TAP_MAC_FIXED " "
ETH_TAP_REMOTE_ARG "=<string>");