MULTI_NIC_SETUP_CAVIUM.md

ARM64 Cavium Thunderx - Setting up a node with multiple NICs

• First, configure hardware interfaces in the VPP startup config, as described here.

• For each interface owned by Linux, you need to provide individual configuration for each interface used by VPP in the Node Configuration for the node in the contiv-vpp-arm64.yaml. For example, if both enP2p1s0f1 and enP2p1s0f2 are known to Linux, you put the following stanza into the node's NodeConfig:

...
    NodeConfig:
    - NodeName: "ubuntu-1"
      StealInterface: "enP2p1s0f1"
      StealInterface: "enP2p1s0f2"
...

If only enP2p1s0f1 is known to Linux, you only put a line for enP2p1s0f1 into the above NodeConfig.