Hello, I was looking into using VPP as the base framework for our network processing tools, starting with a simple load distribution tool which reads from a NIC and distributes flows to a set of consumers. >From its description, VPP sounds like a great tool to achieve this, meeting the high performance requirements we have and being easily extensible for custom tasks. However, I find the documentation severly lacking. I failed to find a starting point to experiment with VPP for our use cases.
I see three options: 1) Write a set of plugins which all run in the original vpp application. 2) Write a standalone application which uses the message passin API to call into the original vpp application. 3) Write a standalone application which uses the vpp library. Personally I'd prefer 3) because it gives us the most flexibility while leveraging already existing high-quality code. It is important for me to reuse as much as possible without having to maintain a fork. Especially the processing of the various network packet layers (ethernet, ip, mpls, ...) is just tedious and it would be more than welcome if a library could take over this work. However, the problem I see with 3) is that the general architecture like batch-processing and the node graph has to be rewritten. So what would your advice be, how should I approach this task and where would I find more information. Just point me at raw code if neccessary. Kind regards -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#8838): https://lists.fd.io/g/vpp-dev/message/8838 View All Messages In Topic (1): https://lists.fd.io/g/vpp-dev/topic/16918643 Mute This Topic: https://lists.fd.io/mt/16918643/21656 New Topic: https://lists.fd.io/g/vpp-dev/post Change Your Subscription: https://lists.fd.io/g/vpp-dev/editsub/21656 Group Home: https://lists.fd.io/g/vpp-dev Contact Group Owner: vpp-dev+ow...@lists.fd.io Terms of Service: https://lists.fd.io/static/tos Unsubscribe: https://lists.fd.io/g/vpp-dev/unsub -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
