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| 2 | |
| 3 | Packages |
| John DeNisco | c64ba6d | 2018-08-02 15:03:15 -0400 | [diff] [blame] | 4 | ========== |
| 5 | |
| 6 | This section identifies the different VPP packages and describes their contents. |
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| 8 | .. toctree:: |
| 9 | |
| 10 | vpp |
| 11 | --- |
| 12 | |
| 13 | Vector Packet Processing executables. This is the primary package that must be |
| 14 | installed to use VPP. This package contains: |
| 15 | |
| 16 | * vpp - the vector packet engine |
| 17 | * vpp_api_test - vector packet engine API test tool |
| 18 | * vpp_json_test - vector packet engine JSON test tool |
| 19 | |
| 20 | vpp-lib |
| 21 | ------- |
| 22 | |
| 23 | Vector Packet Processing runtime libraries. The *'vpp'* package depends on this |
| 24 | package, so it will always be installed. This package contains the VPP shared |
| 25 | libraries, including: |
| 26 | |
| 27 | * vppinfra - Foundation library supporting vectors, hashes, bitmaps, pools, and string formatting. |
| 28 | * svm - vm library |
| 29 | * vlib - vector processing library |
| 30 | * vlib-api - binary API library |
| 31 | * vnet - network stack library |
| 32 | |
| 33 | vpp-plugins |
| 34 | ----------- |
| 35 | |
| 36 | Vector Packet Processing plugin modules. |
| 37 | |
| 38 | * acl |
| 39 | * dpdk |
| 40 | * flowprobe |
| 41 | * gtpu |
| 42 | * ixge |
| 43 | * kubeproxy |
| 44 | * l2e |
| 45 | * lb |
| 46 | * memif |
| 47 | * nat |
| 48 | * pppoe |
| 49 | * sixrd |
| 50 | * stn |
| 51 | |
| 52 | vpp-dbg |
| 53 | ------- |
| 54 | |
| 55 | Vector Packet Processing debug symbols. |
| 56 | |
| 57 | vpp-dev |
| 58 | ------- |
| 59 | |
| 60 | Vector Packet Processing development support. This package contains |
| 61 | development support files for the VPP libraries. |
| 62 | |
| John DeNisco | 06dcd45 | 2018-07-26 12:45:10 -0400 | [diff] [blame] | 63 | vpp-api-python |
| 64 | -------------- |
| 65 | |
| 66 | Python binding for the VPP Binary API. |
| 67 | |
| 68 | vpp-api-lua |
| 69 | ----------- |
| 70 | |
| 71 | Lua binding for the VPP Binary API. |
| 72 | |
| 73 | vpp-selinux-policy |
| 74 | ------------------ |
| 75 | |
| 76 | This package contains the VPP Custom SELinux Policy. It is only generated for |
| 77 | Fedora and CentOS distros. For those distros, the *'vpp'* package depends on |
| 78 | this package, so it will always be installed. It will not enable SELinux on |
| 79 | the system. It will install a Custom VPP SELinux policy that will be used if |
| 80 | SELinux is enabled at any time. |