Re: Redirect from NIC to TAP

Radu Stoenescu <[email protected]> writes:

> Thanks a lot for the info.
>
> In retrospect, was there a way I could reach this conclusion myself
> (no driver support)? I'm asking this since I'm relatively new to the
> environment and we run various NICs from various vendors, and I would
> like to know how to perform the "due diligence" myself before reaching
> out?

Grepping the source code is one. The xdp_monitor tool from samples/bpf
might have provided a hint as well, but only that something was wrong,
not the cause.

This is a long-standing issue, and there's been some discussion around
it, but let's just say that no consensus has emerged yet :/

-Toke