Features¶
Note
Todo: John will get a complete list of features
The huge number of supported network protocols allows a wide variety of network appliance workloads to be built. At a high level, the platform provides:
- Fast lookup tables for routes, bridge entries
- Arbitrary n-tuple classifiers
- Out of the box production quality switch/router functionality
The following is a summary of the features the FD.io VPP platform provides:
List of Features¶
Universal Data Plane¶
- Layer 2 - 4 Network Stack
- CP, TM, Overlays and more…
- Linux (and FreeBSD) support
- Kernel Interfaces (Netmap, Fastmap)
- Container and Virtualization support
- Appliance, infrastructure, VNF & CNF
Fast, Scalable and Deterministic¶
- L2XC - 15+ Mpps per core
- 0 packet drops, ~15µs latency
- Continuous & extensive latency testing
- Linear scaling with core/thread count
- Supporting millions of concurrent L[2,3] tables entries
Extensible Modular Design¶
- Pluggable, easy to understand & extend
- Mature graph node Architecture
- Full control to reorganize the pipeline
- Fast, plugins are equal citizens
Developer Friendly¶
- Runtime counters for everything. (throughput, ipc, errors etc)
- Full pipeline tracing facilities
- Multi-language API bindings
- VPP command line introspection
IPv4/IPv6¶
- 14+ MPPS, single core
- Multimillion entry FIBs
- Input Checks
- Source RPF
- TTL expiration
- header checksum
- L2 length < IP length
- ARP resolution/snooping
- ARP proxy
- Thousands of VRFs
- Controlled cross-VRF lookups
- Multipath – ECMP and Unequal Cost
- Multiple million Classifiers - Arbitrary N-tuple
- VLAN Support – Single/Double tag
L2¶
- VLAN Support
- Single/ Double tag
- L2 forwarding with EFP/BridgeDomain concepts
- VTR – push/pop/Translate (1:1,1:2, 2:1,2:2)
- Mac Learning – default limit of 50k addresses
- Bridging – Split-horizon group support/EFP Filtering
- Proxy Arp
- Arp termination
- IRB – BVI Support with RouterMac assignment
- Flooding
- Input ACLs
- Interface cross-connect
MPLS¶
- MPLS-o-Ethernet – Deep label stacks supported