1.. SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-3-Clause 2 Copyright(c) 2010-2014 Intel Corporation. 3 4Introduction 5============ 6 7This document is a user guide for the ``testpmd`` example application that is shipped as part of the Data Plane Development Kit. 8 9The ``testpmd`` application can be used to test the DPDK in a packet forwarding mode 10and also to access NIC hardware features such as Flow Director. 11It also serves as a example of how to build a more fully-featured application using the DPDK SDK. 12 13The guide shows how to build and run the testpmd application and 14how to configure the application from the command line and the run-time environment. 15