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From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
Subject: Re: Vmxnet3 activation of device fails in DPDK1.7
Date: Thu, 10 Dec 2015 09:24:19 -0800
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On Thu, 10 Dec 2015 10:22:30 +0000
"Dey, Souvik" <sodey@sonusnet.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>                 In DPDK 1.7 , while using the vmxnet3 pmd on vmware Esxi 5.5 update 3 we are seeing that activation of the device fails.

Please try something more recent. DPDK 1.7 had a version of vmxnet3
which was brand new at the time, and had lots of bugs. A lot of collabrative
changes went into later versions. I would recommend 2.0 or later
if possible.