| John DeNisco | 06dcd45 | 2018-07-26 12:45:10 -0400 | [diff] [blame] | 1 | .. _packet-processing: |
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| John DeNisco | c64ba6d | 2018-08-02 15:03:15 -0400 | [diff] [blame] | 3 | =================== |
| John DeNisco | 06dcd45 | 2018-07-26 12:45:10 -0400 | [diff] [blame] | 4 | Packet Processing |
| John DeNisco | c64ba6d | 2018-08-02 15:03:15 -0400 | [diff] [blame] | 5 | =================== |
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| 7 | This section identifies different components of packet processing and describes their benefits: |
| John DeNisco | 06dcd45 | 2018-07-26 12:45:10 -0400 | [diff] [blame] | 8 | |
| 9 | * Layer 2 - 4 Network Stack |
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| 11 | * Fast lookup tables for routes, bridge entries |
| 12 | * Arbitrary n-tuple classifiers |
| 13 | * Control Plane, Traffic Management and Overlays |
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| 15 | * `Linux <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux>`_ and `FreeBSD <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FreeBSD>`_ support |
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| 17 | * Wide support for standard Operating System Interfaces such as AF_Packet, Tun/Tap & Netmap. |
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| 19 | * Wide network and cryptograhic hardware support with `DPDK <https://www.dpdk.org/>`_. |
| 20 | * Container and Virtualization support |
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| 22 | * Para-virtualized intefaces; Vhost and Virtio |
| 23 | * Network Adapters over PCI passthrough |
| 24 | * Native container interfaces; MemIF |
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| 26 | * Universal Data Plane: one code base, for many use cases |
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| 28 | * Discrete appliances; such as `Routers <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Router_(computing)>`_ and `Switches <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_switch>`_. |
| 29 | * `Cloud Infrastructure and Virtual Network Functions <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_function_virtualization>`_ |
| 30 | * `Cloud Native Infrastructure <https://www.cncf.io/>`_ |
| 31 | * The same binary package for all use cases. |
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| 33 | * Out of the box production quality, with thanks to `CSIT <https://wiki.fd.io/view/CSIT#Start_Here>`_. |
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| 35 | For more information, please see :ref:`features` for the complete list. |
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