Date: Thu, 02 Oct 2025 13:50:06 +0100 From: "Tom Jones" <thj@freebsd.org> To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: VPP on FreeBSD Stable 14.3 Message-ID: <e8eb20ff-e261-41ea-810a-7bedb6e4ae20@app.fastmail.com> In-Reply-To: <CAJ3iMJSigfDBQbV9=myeAkqt0T4qiMWW_Kfuf2ywN5d8SaJehw@mail.gmail.com> References: <CAJ3iMJSigfDBQbV9=myeAkqt0T4qiMWW_Kfuf2ywN5d8SaJehw@mail.gmail.com>
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On Sat, Sep 27, 2025, at 15:40, Tom Smyth wrote: > Folks, > I was wondering folks who run vpp on FreeBSD, > 1) when I run vpp ssh on the management nic becomes un responsive... Just to confirm, there isn't an "vpp ssh" command I'm not aware of and you are ssh'ing in? > 2) is there a recommended freeBSD /etc/vpp/startup.conf file that > works well for FreeBSD ? > > i have a virtio NIC for management > virtio was my initial development environment, but with bhyve (and one very short test with vmware). > Im trying out FreeBSD with VPP inside a PRoxmox Hosted VM with Intel > IOMMU (not virtio-iommu) 8GB RAM 2 sockets 1 core, assigned to the > VM, > Is that linux kvm? Is there a reproduction environment you could point me at that is a little less work than learning what proxmox is? > > my /boot/loader.conf > cat /boot/loader.conf > boot_multicons=YES > boot_serial=YES > comconsole_speed=115200 > console="comconsole,vidconsole" > contigmem_load="YES" > nic_uio_load="YES" > hw.contigmem.num_buffers=4 > hw.contigmem.buffer_size=1073741824 > hw.nic_uio.bdfs="1:0:0,2:0:0" > This seems fine from what I remember. Could you sketch a picture of how the interfaces are logically connected together/to the vm host? I was looking in my git repos to find the documentation I was sure I wrote. Eventually I remembered this article: https://freebsdfoundation.org/our-work/journal/browser-based-edition/kernel-development/porting-vpp-to-freebsd-basic-usage/ If you want to go into more detail, or have a more interactive conversation feel free to contact me off list Tom
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