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Problem The API app_namespace_add_del allows specifying ip4_fib_id and ip6_fib_id. But the CLI does not. It only allows interface. Interface binding may change after the application namespace is created and there is no registration for the callback when the interface binding changes. Fix Add ip4-fib-id and ip6-fib-id to app ns CLI. When both interface and fib-id's are specified, interface takes precedence. When interface is not specified, either ip4-fib-id or ip6-fib-id or both ip4 and ip6 fib-id's may be specified. If only ip4-fib-id is specified, ip6 is disable for this particular app namespace. If only ip6-fib-id is specified, ip4 is disable for this namespace. When the interface binding changes to different vrf and the application namespace was created via interface option, we delete the application namespace and recreate the application namespace with the new interface binding. Notice when the application namespace is removed, all session rules and sdl rules previously created for the deleted application namespace will be deleted. However, if the fib table/session table was shared by another namespace, the other namespace will still contain the session rules and sdl rules. Type: improvement Change-Id: I76eb30da1ed8a39d06694c1e66d0675bf03516bf Signed-off-by: Steven Luong <sluong@cisco.com>
Vector Packet Processing
Introduction
The VPP platform is an extensible framework that provides out-of-the-box production quality switch/router functionality. It is the open source version of Cisco's Vector Packet Processing (VPP) technology: a high performance, packet-processing stack that can run on commodity CPUs.
The benefits of this implementation of VPP are its high performance, proven technology, its modularity and flexibility, and rich feature set.
For more information on VPP and its features please visit the FD.io website and What is VPP? pages.
Changes
Details of the changes leading up to this version of VPP can be found under doc/releasenotes.
Directory layout
| Directory name | Description |
|---|---|
| build-data | Build metadata |
| build-root | Build output directory |
| docs | Sphinx Documentation |
| dpdk | DPDK patches and build infrastructure |
| extras/libmemif | Client library for memif |
| src/examples | VPP example code |
| src/plugins | VPP bundled plugins directory |
| src/svm | Shared virtual memory allocation library |
| src/tests | Standalone tests (not part of test harness) |
| src/vat | VPP API test program |
| src/vlib | VPP application library |
| src/vlibapi | VPP API library |
| src/vlibmemory | VPP Memory management |
| src/vnet | VPP networking |
| src/vpp | VPP application |
| src/vpp-api | VPP application API bindings |
| src/vppinfra | VPP core library |
| src/vpp/api | Not-yet-relocated API bindings |
| test | Unit tests and Python test harness |
Getting started
In general anyone interested in building, developing or running VPP should consult the VPP wiki for more complete documentation.
In particular, readers are recommended to take a look at [Pulling, Building, Running, Hacking, Pushing](https://wiki.fd.io/view/VPP/Pulling,_Building,_Run ning,_Hacking_and_Pushing_VPP_Code) which provides extensive step-by-step coverage of the topic.
For the impatient, some salient information is distilled below.
Quick-start: On an existing Linux host
To install system dependencies, build VPP and then install it, simply run the
build script. This should be performed a non-privileged user with sudo
access from the project base directory:
./extras/vagrant/build.sh
If you want a more fine-grained approach because you intend to do some
development work, the Makefile in the root directory of the source tree
provides several convenience shortcuts as make targets that may be of
interest. To see the available targets run:
make
Quick-start: Vagrant
The directory extras/vagrant contains a VagrantFile and supporting
scripts to bootstrap a working VPP inside a Vagrant-managed Virtual Machine.
This VM can then be used to test concepts with VPP or as a development
platform to extend VPP. Some obvious caveats apply when using a VM for VPP
since its performance will never match that of bare metal; if your work is
timing or performance sensitive, consider using bare metal in addition or
instead of the VM.
For this to work you will need a working installation of Vagrant. Instructions for this can be found [on the Setting up Vagrant wiki page] (https://wiki.fd.io/view/DEV/Setting_Up_Vagrant).
Quick-start: FreeBSD
VPP is packaged in the FreeBSD ports system. Binary packages are available and can be installed with the following command:
# pkg install vpp
More information
Several modules provide documentation, see @subpage user_doc for more end-user-oriented information. Also see @subpage dev_doc for developer notes.
Visit the VPP wiki for details on more advanced building strategies and other development notes.