Network Stack

This section describes a little about the FD.io network stack and describes some 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

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

• Network and cryptographic hardware support with DPDK.

• Container and Virtualization support

  • Para-virtualized interfaces; Vhost and Virtio

  • Network Adapters over PCI passthrough

  • Native container interfaces; MemIF

• Host Stack

• 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 by Release for the complete list.

For more on the TCP Host Stack press next.