The Vector Packet Processor

v25.02-rc0-129-gd74e440f2

About VPP

Scalar vs Vector packet processing
The Packet Processing Graph
Network Stack Features
Host Stack
Additional features
Supported archs and OS
Performance
Release notes
VPP Supported Features

Use Cases

VPP with Containers
VPP with Iperf3 and TRex
VPP in the Cloud
VPP with Virtual Machines
VPP with VMware/Vmxnet3
VPP as a Home Gateway
Access Control Lists with VPP
Generating traffic with VPP
Web applications with VPP
Simulating networks with VPP
Stateless Traffic Gen with VPP
IKEv2 with VPP
VPP in kubernetes (Contiv/Deprecated)
VPP Container Test Bench

Getting started

Downloading and Installing VPP
Running VPP
Progressive VPP Tutorial
Troubleshooting

Developer Documentation

Build, Run & Debug
Core Architecture
Core Features
Adding a new plugin or feature
Plugins
Device drivers
VPP Test Framework
VPP extra tools

Interfacing with VPP

The binary API
C api client
C++ api client
Go api (govpp)
Rust api client
Memif library (libmemif)

Contributing

Getting a Patch Reviewed
Writing VPP Documentation
Reporting Bugs

Debug CLI

Getting Started with the debug CLI
Interface Commands
Reference

Configuration file

Getting started with the configuration
Configuration Reference

The Vector Packet Processor

Core Features
The FIB
Prerequisites
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Prerequisites

This section describes some prerequisite topics and nomenclature that are foundational to understanding the FIB architecture.

Graphs
Prefixes

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