Features for Release VPP 17.04

This section lists those features that became available in VPP Release 17.04:

Features

Infrastructure

  • make test improvements
  • vnet: add device-input threadplacement infra
  • 64 bit per-thread counters
  • process restart cli
  • High performance timer wheels
  • Plugin infrastructure improvements
    • Support for .default_disabled, .version_required
  • Added MAINTAINERS file

Host stack

  • TCP stack (experimental)
  • DHCPv4 / DHCPv6 relay multi-destination
  • DHCPv4 option 82
  • ND proxy
  • Attached hosts
  • Consolidated DHCPv4 and DHCPv6 implementation

Interfaces

  • DPDK 17.02 (retire support for DPDK 16.07)
  • Add memif - packet memory interface for intra-host communication
  • vhost: support interrupt mode
  • DPDK as plugin (retired vpp_lite)
  • DPDPK input optimizations
  • Loopback interface allocation scheme

Network features

  • IP Multicast FIB
  • Bridging
    • Learning on local interfaces
    • Flushing of MACs from the L2 FIB
  • SNAT
    • CGN (Deterministic and dynamic)
    • CGN configurable port allocation algorithm
    • ICMP support
    • Tentant VRF id for SNAT outside addresses
    • Session dump / User dump
    • Port allocation per protocol
  • Security groups
    • Routed interface support
    • L2+L3 unified processing node
    • Improve fragment handling
  • Segement routing v6
    • SR policies with weighted SID lists
    • Binding SID
    • SR steering policies
    • SR Local SIDs
    • Framework to expand local SIDs w/plugins
    • Documentation
  • IOAM
    • UDP Pinger w/path fault isolation
    • IOAM as type 2 metadata in NSH
    • IAOM raw IPFIX collector and analyzer
    • Anycast active server selection
    • Documentation
    • SRv6 Local SID
    • IP6 HBH header and SR header co-existence
    • Active probe
  • LISP
    • Statistics collection
    • Generalize encap for overlay transport (vxlan-gpe support)
    • Improve data plane speed
  • GPE
    • CLI
    • NSH added to encap/decap path
    • Renamed LISP GPE API to GPE
  • MPLS
    • Performance improvements (quad loop)
  • BFD
    • Command line interface
    • Echo function
    • Remote demand mode
    • SHA1 authentication
  • IPsec
    • IKEv2 initiator features
  • VXLAN
    • unify IP4/IP6 control plane handling

API changes

  • Python API: To avoid conflicts between VPP API messages names and the Python API binding function names, the VPP API methods are put into a separate proxy object https://gerrit.fd.io/r/#/c/5570/

    The api methods are now referenced as: vpp_handle = VPP(jsonfiles) vpp_handle.connect(…) vpp = vpp_handle.api vpp.show_version() vpp_handle.disconnect()

    For backwards compatibility VPP API methods are left in the main name space (VPP), but will be removed from 17.07.

    • Python API: Change from cPython to CFFI.

  • create_loopback message to be replaced with create_loopback_instance create_loopback will be removed from 17.07. https://gerrit.fd.io/r/#/c/5572/

Known issues

For the full list of issues please refer to fd.io JIRA.

Issues fixed

For the full list of fixed issues please refer to: