setting up 2 netronome agilio 2x10GbE cards on same PC

[Soumya Kanta Rana]

Hi

I am trying to setup 2 netronome agilio 2x10GbE cards on my PC and operate them independently ( by 2 different p4-compiled firmware files ). 

Can someone please help me out with this? Currently I use the following commands for p4 compilation and firmware upload

1. sudo modprobe -r -v nfp && sudo modprobe nfp nfp_pf_netdev=0 nfp_dev_cpp=1
2. sudo /opt/netronome/p4/bin/nfp4build -o basic.nffw -p out -4 basic.p4 -l lithium --nfp4c_p4_version 16 --nfp4c_I /opt/netronome/p4/include/16/p4include/
3. sudo systemctl start nfp-sdk6-rte.service
4. sudo /opt/netronome/p4/bin/rtecli design-unload
5. sudo /opt/netronome/bin/nfp-nffw unload
6. sudo /opt/netronome/p4/bin/rtecli design-load -f basic.nffw -p out/pif_design.json
7. sudo /opt/netronome/p4/bin/rtecli config-reload -c user_config.json

the terminal logs show pcie0 as the interface where it works (thats where my first card is installed). I need to know what should I do in order to use another card (slotted at pcie1, say) to flash a separate firmware to it.

Thanks in advance,

Soumya

[Octavio Herrera-Ruiz]

   I do not have a dual-card system setup at the moment, but from the output of 'rtecli -h' I would suggest testing using the following options

1)   -d DEVICE_ID, --device-id DEVICE_ID    # 0 = first device and so on, but there is a note about grpc, so if it does not work try:

2)   -r RTE_HOST, --rte-host RTE_HOST
                        rte host, default localhost
       -p RTE_PORT, --rte-port RTE_PORT
                        rte port, default 20206

   where host would not be needed (localhost by default) but you can specify the RTE_PORT that is being used by each RTE instance (to communicate with each card).

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   Have a nice day!