1*5630257fSFerruh Yigit.. SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-3-Clause 2*5630257fSFerruh Yigit Copyright(c) 2010-2014 Intel Corporation. 3ac718398SBernard Iremonger 4ac718398SBernard IremongerIntroduction 5ac718398SBernard Iremonger============ 6ac718398SBernard Iremonger 7e76d7a76SJohn McNamaraThis document is a user guide for the ``testpmd`` example application that is shipped as part of the Data Plane Development Kit. 8ac718398SBernard Iremonger 9e76d7a76SJohn McNamaraThe ``testpmd`` application can be used to test the DPDK in a packet forwarding mode 10ac718398SBernard Iremongerand also to access NIC hardware features such as Flow Director. 11bd89cca3SSiobhan ButlerIt also serves as a example of how to build a more fully-featured application using the DPDK SDK. 12ac718398SBernard Iremonger 13e76d7a76SJohn McNamaraThe guide shows how to build and run the testpmd application and 14e76d7a76SJohn McNamarahow to configure the application from the command line and the run-time environment. 15