I am interested in setting flow directors on my NIC card and following the instruction at link: https://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/setting-up-intel-ethernet-flow-director However the ethtool command is throwing the following error:

[PKomp]

[root@l2dev5g test-pmd]# ethtool --config-ntuple p2p2 flow-type tcp4 src-ip 10.23.4.6 dst-ip 10.23.4.18 action 1

rmgr: Invalid RX class rules table size: Operation not supported

Cannot insert classification rule

[root@l2dev5g test-pmd]#

This is the feature list supported by "p2p2"

[root@l2dev5g test-pmd]# ethtool --show-features p2p2

Features for p2p2:

rx-checksumming: on

tx-checksumming: on

       tx-checksum-ipv4: on

       tx-checksum-ip-generic: off [fixed]

       tx-checksum-ipv6: on

       tx-checksum-fcoe-crc: off [fixed]

       tx-checksum-sctp: off [fixed]

scatter-gather: on

       tx-scatter-gather: on

       tx-scatter-gather-fraglist: off [fixed]

tcp-segmentation-offload: on

       tx-tcp-segmentation: on

       tx-tcp-ecn-segmentation: off [fixed]

       tx-tcp6-segmentation: on

       tx-tcp-mangleid-segmentation: off

udp-fragmentation-offload: off [fixed]

generic-segmentation-offload: on

generic-receive-offload: on

large-receive-offload: off

rx-vlan-offload: on

tx-vlan-offload: on

ntuple-filters: on

receive-hashing: on

highdma: on [fixed]

rx-vlan-filter: off [fixed]

vlan-challenged: off [fixed]

tx-lockless: off [fixed]

netns-local: off [fixed]

tx-gso-robust: off [fixed]

tx-fcoe-segmentation: off [fixed]

tx-gre-segmentation: on

tx-ipip-segmentation: on

tx-sit-segmentation: on

tx-udp_tnl-segmentation: on

fcoe-mtu: off [fixed]

tx-nocache-copy: off

loopback: off [fixed]

rx-fcs: off [fixed]

rx-all: off [fixed]

tx-vlan-stag-hw-insert: on

rx-vlan-stag-hw-parse: on

rx-vlan-stag-filter: off [fixed]

busy-poll: off [fixed]

tx-gre-csum-segmentation: on

tx-udp_tnl-csum-segmentation: on

tx-gso-partial: on

tx-sctp-segmentation: off [fixed]

rx-gro-hw: on

l2-fwd-offload: off [fixed]

hw-tc-offload: on

rx-udp_tunnel-port-offload: on

Following are the network devices in my machine

[root@l2dev5g usertools]# ./dpdk-devbind.py --status-dev net

Network devices using DPDK-compatible driver

============================================

<none>

Network devices using kernel driver

===================================

0000:04:00.0 'NetXtreme BCM5720 2-port Gigabit Ethernet PCIe 165f' if=em1 drv=tg3 unused=igb_uio,vfio-pci,uio_pci_generic *Active*

0000:04:00.1 'NetXtreme BCM5720 2-port Gigabit Ethernet PCIe 165f' if=em2 drv=tg3 unused=igb_uio,vfio-pci,uio_pci_generic

0000:3b:00.0 'BCM57412 NetXtreme-E 10Gb RDMA Ethernet Controller 16d6' if=p2p1 drv=bnxt_en unused=igb_uio,vfio-pci,uio_pci_generic

0000:3b:00.1 'BCM57412 NetXtreme-E 10Gb RDMA Ethernet Controller 16d6' if=p2p2 drv=bnxt_en unused=igb_uio,vfio-pci,uio_pci_generic *Active*

Other Network devices

=====================

<none>

[root@l2dev5g usertools]#

[Mike_Intel]

Hello PKomp,

Thank you for posting in Intel Ethernet Communities. 

Regarding your inquiry, kindly open the link below on how you can access DPDK support.

Click the "Login and Access" to contact the DPDK support.

https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/design/support/ips/training/welcome.html

If you have questions, please let us know.

Best regards,

Michael L.

Intel Customer Support Technicians

A Contingent Worker at Intel

[Mike_Intel]

Hello PKomp,

I just want to check if you were able to contact our DPDK support for further assistance.

If you have questions, please let us know.

Best regards,

Michael L.

Intel Customer Support Technicians

A Contingent Worker at Intel

[PKomp]

Hi Michael I was not able to post the question to DPDK Support. I was taken to “Intel® Premier Support Access” – but my login failed with following error. You don't have Access to IPS. Please contact the FAE to get access. If you are an Employee and want Customer Role, Please raise request in AGS Thanks Purnima

[Mike_Intel]

Hello PKomp,

I understand, however the customer is the one who needs to access and request for DPDK support.

If you have issues, please contact the email under login issues on the link below:

https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/design/support/ips/training/access-and-login.html

If you have questions, please let us know.

Best regards,

Michael L.

Intel Customer Support Technicians

A Contingent Worker at Intel

[Mike_Intel]

Hello PKomp,

Just want to check if you already contacted our DPDK support.

If you have questions, please let us know.

Best regards,

Michael L.

Intel Customer Support Technicians

A Contingent Worker at Intel

[Mike_Intel]

Hello PKomp,

I am just sending another follow up on the information that I requested. 

Since we have not heard back from you, I will close this inquiry now.

If you have questions, please let us know.

Best regards,

Michael L.

Intel Customer Support Technicians

A Contingent Worker at Intel