Features for Release VPP 17.01¶
This section lists those features that became available in VPP Release 17.01:
Features¶
Integrated November 2016 DPDK release
Complete rework of Forwarding Information Base (FIB)
- Performance Improvements
Improvements in DPDK input and output nodes
Improvements in L2 path
Improvements in IPv4 lookup node
- Feature Arcs Improvements
Consolidation of the code
- New feature arcs
device-input
interface-output
- DPDK Cryptodev Support
Software and Hardware Crypto Support
DPDK HQoS support
Simple Port Analyzer (SPAN)
- Bidirectional Forwarding Detection
Basic implementation
IPFIX Improvements
L2 GRE over IPSec tunnels
Link Layer Discovery Protocol (LLDP)
- Vhost-user Improvements
Performance Improvements
Multiqueue
Reconnect
- LISP Enhancements
Source/Dest control plane support
L2 over LISP and GRE
Map-Register/Map-Notify/RLOC-probing support
L2 API improvements, overall code hardening
- Plugins:
New: ACL
New: Flow per Packet
- Improved: SNAT
Mutlithreading
Flow export
Doxygen Enhancements
Luajit API bindings
- API Refactoring
file split
message signatures
- Python and Scapy based unit testing infrastructure
Infrastructure
Various tests
Packet Generator improvements
TUN/TAP jumbo frames support
Other various bug fixes and improvements