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Subject: Re: netmap: traffic distribution
From: Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@iet.unipi.it>
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On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 10:07 AM, hiren panchasara
<hiren.panchasara@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I am providing line rate traffic (via pkg-gen.c) to my 10gig ix interface.
>
> Now on receiving side, is there a way to sub-divide the traffic into
> multiple workloads using netmap?
>
> For example, can I get two 5G flows from 10Gbps traffic?

not directly. You'd need to send packets with different addresses that match
the way the filters on the NIC (RSS or similar) are programmed.

cheers
luigi