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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
  • Adding a new plugin or feature
  • Plugins
  • Device drivers
    • Intel AVF device driver
    • RDMA (ibverb) device driver
    • VMWARE vmxnet3 device driver
    • AF_XDP device driver
  • 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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  • Device drivers
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Device drivers

  • Intel AVF device driver
  • RDMA (ibverb) device driver
  • VMWARE vmxnet3 device driver
  • AF_XDP device driver
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