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diff --git a/docs/testing/user/configguide/trafficgen.rst b/docs/testing/user/configguide/trafficgen.rst index 7c14c55d..2d2b9a9e 100644 --- a/docs/testing/user/configguide/trafficgen.rst +++ b/docs/testing/user/configguide/trafficgen.rst @@ -821,3 +821,15 @@ Default value of this parameter is defined in conf/03_traffic.conf as follows: .. code-block:: console TRAFFICGEN_TREX_RFC2544_TPUT_THRESHOLD = '' + +SR-IOV +~~~~~~ +T-Rex by default only accepts packets on the receive side if the destination mac matches the +MAC address specificed in the /etc/trex-cfg.yaml on the server side. For SR-IOV this creates +challenges with modifying the MAC address in the traffic profile to correctly flow packets +through specified VFs. To remove this limitation enable promiscuous mode on T-Rex to allow +all packets regardless of the destination mac to be accepted. + +.. code-block:: console + + TRAFFICGEN_TREX_PROMISCUOUS=True |