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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
    • The FIB
    • Segment routing
    • Punting Packets
    • IPSec (IP Security)
    • BFD module
    • IP Reassembly
    • IPFIX support
    • Switched Port Analyzer
    • MTU in VPP
    • Generic Segmentation Offload
    • Transmit Queues
    • Syslog protocol support
    • Event-logger
    • Statistics
    • SELinux - VPP Custom SELinux Policy
    • Policing
    • Hash Infra
  • 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)
  • VAT2

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
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Core Features

  • The FIB
  • Segment routing
  • Punting Packets
  • IPSec (IP Security)
  • BFD module
  • IP Reassembly
  • IPFIX support
  • Switched Port Analyzer
  • MTU in VPP
  • Generic Segmentation Offload
  • Transmit Queues
  • Syslog protocol support
  • Event-logger
  • Statistics
  • SELinux - VPP Custom SELinux Policy
  • Policing
  • Hash Infra
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