From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Vivek Soni Subject: Re: Is it possible to have dpdk running with no dependency on a nic ? Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2014 14:12:11 +0530 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Cc: dev-VfR2kkLFssw@public.gmane.org Return-path: In-Reply-To: List-Id: patches and discussions about DPDK List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: dev-bounces-VfR2kkLFssw@public.gmane.org Sender: "dev" Yes, It is very well possible to run DPDK without dependency on the NIC. But it all depends what you want to do. The two DPDK applications can communicate using the ring library provided by DPDK. In case there is no NIC, DPDK provides pure software based PMDs which can be used on systems without a NIC or with unsupported NIC using standard kernel drivers. Hope it helps. Regards, Vivek On Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 1:49 AM, Ymo Lists wrote: > Is this a faq ??? > > > On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 1:21 PM, Ymo Lists wrote: > > > 1) I have two apps that need to communicate on the same machine . Is it > > possible to have these two apps communicating via dpdk without > referencing > > a nic ? > > > > 2) The apps need to run on an amazon vm. How can you run dpdk on an > amazon > > vm with only one nic if the above is not possible ? > > >