Packages¶
This section identifies the different VPP packages and describes their contents.
vpp¶
Vector Packet Processing executables. This is the primary package that must be installed to use VPP. This package contains:
vpp - the vector packet engine
vpp_api_test - vector packet engine API test tool
vpp_json_test - vector packet engine JSON test tool
vpp-lib¶
Vector Packet Processing runtime libraries. The ‘vpp’ package depends on this package, so it will always be installed. This package contains the VPP shared libraries, including:
vppinfra - Foundation library supporting vectors, hashes, bitmaps, pools, and string formatting.
svm - vm library
vlib - vector processing library
vlib-api - binary API library
vnet - network stack library
vpp-plugins¶
Vector Packet Processing plugin modules.
abf - Access Control List (ACL) Based Forwarding
acl - Access Control Lists (ACL)
adl - Allow/deny list plugin
af_xdp - AF_XDP Device Plugin
avf - Intel Adaptive Virtual Function (AVF) Device Driver
builtinurl - vpp built-in URL support
cdp - Cisco Discovery Protocol (CDP)
cnat - CNat Translate
crypto_ipsecmb - Intel IPSEC Multi-buffer Crypto Engine
crypto_native - Intel IA32 Software Crypto Engine
crypto_openssl - OpenSSL Crypto Engine
crypto_sw_scheduler - SW Scheduler Crypto Async Engine plugin
ct6 - IPv6 Connection Tracker
dhcp - Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP)
dns - Simple DNS name resolver
dpdk - Data Plane Development Kit (DPDK)
flowprobe - Flow per Packet
gbp - Group Based Policy (GBP)
geneve - GENEVE Tunnels
gtpu - GPRS Tunnelling Protocol, User Data (GTPv1-U)
hs_apps - Host Stack Applications
http_static - HTTP Static Server
igmp - Internet Group Management Protocol (IGMP)
ikev2 - Internet Key Exchange (IKEv2) Protocol
ila - Identifier Locator Addressing (ILA) for IPv6
ioam - Inbound Operations, Administration, and Maintenance (OAM)
l2e - Layer 2 (L2) Emulation
l2tp - Layer 2 Tunneling Protocol v3 (L2TP)
l3xc - L3 Cross-Connect (L3XC)
lacp - Link Aggregation Control Protocol (LACP)
lb - Load Balancer (LB)
lisp - Locator ID Separation Protocol (LISP)
lldp - Link Layer Discovery Protocol (LLDP)
mactime - Time-based MAC Source Address Filter
map - Mapping of Address and Port (MAP)
marvell - Marvell PP2 Device Driver
mdata - Buffer metadata change tracker.
memif - Packet Memory Interface (memif) – Experimental
nat - Deterministic NAT (CGN)
nsh - Network Service Header (NSH)
nsim - Network Delay Simulator
oddbuf - Awkward chained buffer geometry generator
perfmon - Performance Monitor
ping - Ping (ping)
pppoe - PPP over Ethernet (PPPoE)
quic - Quic transport protocol
rdma - RDMA IBverbs Device Driver
srv6-ad - Dynamic Segment Routing for IPv6 (SRv6) Proxy
srv6-am - Masquerading Segment Routing for IPv6 (SRv6) Proxy
srv6-as - Static Segment Routing for IPv6 (SRv6) Proxy
srv6-mobile - SRv6 GTP Endpoint Functions
stn - VPP Steals the NIC (STN) for Container Integration
svs - Source Virtual Routing and Fowarding (VRF) Select
tlsmbedtls - Transport Layer Security (TLS) Engine, Mbedtls Based
tlsopenssl - Transport Layer Security (TLS) Engine, OpenSSL Based
tlspicotls - Transport Layer Security (TLS) Engine, Picotls Based
tracedump - Streaming packet trace dump plugin
unittest - C unit tests
urpf - Unicast Reverse Path Forwarding (uRPF)
vmxnet3 - VMWare Vmxnet3 Device Driver
vrrp - VRRP v3 (RFC 5798)
wireguard - Wireguard Protocol
vpp-dbg¶
Vector Packet Processing debug symbols.
vpp-dev¶
Vector Packet Processing development support. This package contains development support files for the VPP libraries.
vpp-api-python¶
Python binding for the VPP Binary API.
vpp-api-lua¶
Lua binding for the VPP Binary API.
vpp-selinux-policy¶
This package contains the VPP Custom SELinux Policy. It is only generated for Fedora and CentOS distros. For those distros, the ‘vpp’ package depends on this package, so it will always be installed. It will not enable SELinux on the system. It will install a Custom VPP SELinux policy that will be used if SELinux is enabled at any time.