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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
  • VPP Test Framework
  • VPP extra tools
    • Code coverage with lcov
    • VPP Snap Build
    • Strongswan Testing Tool
    • VPP configuration utility
    • VPP interface stats client
    • VPP stats segment FUSE filesystem
    • VPP Top Installation
    • LD_PRELOAD the VCL

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
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VPP extra tools

  • Code coverage with lcov
    • Prerequisites
    • Compile an instrumented vpp image
    • Initialize the lcov database
    • Look at the results
  • VPP Snap Build
    • Run the prep script
  • Strongswan Testing Tool
    • setup and run
  • VPP configuration utility
    • VPP config Usage
    • Caveats
    • Uploading to PyPi
  • VPP interface stats client
    • Prerequisites (for building)
    • Building
    • Using (post-build for example on linux 64bit)
    • Output examples
  • VPP stats segment FUSE filesystem
    • Usage
    • Browsing the filesystem
    • Building and mounting the filesystem manually
  • VPP Top Installation
    • GO variables management
  • LD_PRELOAD the VCL
    • 1. Running the demo
    • 2. Docker iPerf examples
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