Packet Processing

This section identifies different components of packet processing and describes their benefits:

• Layer 2 - 4 Network Stack

  • Fast lookup tables for routes, bridge entries

  • Arbitrary n-tuple classifiers

  • Control Plane, Traffic Management and Overlays

• Linux and FreeBSD support

  • Wide support for standard Operating System Interfaces such as AF_Packet, Tun/Tap & Netmap.

• Wide network and cryptograhic hardware support with DPDK.

• Container and Virtualization support

  • Para-virtualized intefaces; Vhost and Virtio

  • Network Adapters over PCI passthrough

  • Native container interfaces; MemIF

• Universal Data Plane: one code base, for many use cases

  • Discrete appliances; such as Routers and Switches.

  • Cloud Infrastructure and Virtual Network Functions

  • Cloud Native Infrastructure

  • The same binary package for all use cases.

• Out of the box production quality, with thanks to CSIT.

For more information, please see Features for the complete list.