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
- Improvmeents 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