"A simple forwarding test with pcap PMD which works with any NIC (with performance penalties)"
Extract sources.
tar xf dpdk.tar.gz cd dpdk
Enable pcap (libpcap headers are required).
make config T=x86_64-native-linuxapp-gcc sed -ri 's,(PMD_PCAP=).*,\1y,' build/.config
Build libraries and test application (Linux headers may be needed with default config).
make
Reserve huge pages memory.
mkdir -p /mnt/huge mount -t hugetlbfs nodev /mnt/huge echo 64 > /sys/devices/system/node/node0/hugepages/hugepages-2048kB/nr_hugepages
Run poll-mode driver test (with a cable between ports).
build/app/testpmd -c7 -n3 --vdev=net_pcap0,iface=eth0 --vdev=net_pcap1,iface=eth1 --
-i --nb-cores=2 --nb-ports=2 --total-num-mbufs=2048
testpmd> show port stats all
######################## NIC statistics for port 0 ########################
RX-packets: 0 RX-errors: 0 RX-bytes: 0
TX-packets: 0 TX-errors: 0 TX-bytes: 0
############################################################################
######################## NIC statistics for port 1 ########################
RX-packets: 0 RX-errors: 0 RX-bytes: 0
TX-packets: 0 TX-errors: 0 TX-bytes: 0
############################################################################
testpmd> start tx_first
testpmd> stop
---------------------- Forward statistics for port 0 ----------------------
RX-packets: 2377688 RX-dropped: 0 RX-total: 2377688
TX-packets: 2007009 TX-dropped: 0 TX-total: 2007009
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
---------------------- Forward statistics for port 1 ----------------------
RX-packets: 2006977 RX-dropped: 0 RX-total: 2006977
TX-packets: 2377720 TX-dropped: 0 TX-total: 2377720
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+++++++++++++++ Accumulated forward statistics for all ports+++++++++++++++
RX-packets: 4384665 RX-dropped: 0 RX-total: 4384665
TX-packets: 4384729 TX-dropped: 0 TX-total: 4384729
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Some sample applications can be tested after building them.
make -C examples RTE_SDK=$(pwd) RTE_TARGET=build O=$(pwd)/build/examples