• Based on ferruhy's repository "dpdk-simple-app"
• Expanded by parsing the followine headers
  • Ethernet
    • Source MAC Address
    • Destination MAC Address
  • Network
    • Source IPv4 Address
    • Destination IPv4 Address
  • Transport Layer
    • Source Port
    • Destination Port
• Follow Along here
  • Setting up DPDK
  • Receive and Transmit Packets
  • Parse the packet headers

• A linux based system:
  • 2 Intel processors, each with 8 cores, 8 GB RAM
  • 2 DPDK compatible NIC(s) with traffic on atleast one
• Some knowledge of C

First,

• make sure you have DPDK installed
• make sure hugepages are setup. (help!)
• make sure NIC(s) are binded to igb_uio driver. (help!)

Now

• Clone this repo

git clone https://github.com/IbrahimShahzad/dpdk-learning.git
cd dpdk-learning

• compile the code

make

• Run the following command to get started

./build/my_app -l 0-3 -n 3 -- -p 0x3

If you are having trouble, see here