Getting StartedΒΆ
The Getting Started Guide is comprised of several different sections; a User section that describes a basic installation and configuration of VPP (either manually or using a config utility), another install for Developers, which contains additional code that provides tools that are used in a development environment.
This section covers the following:
Describes how to manually install VPP Binaries on different OS platforms (Ubuntu, Centos, openSUSE) and then how to configure and use VPP.
Describes the different types of VPP packages, which are used in both basic and developer installs.
A VPP tutorial which is a great way to learn VPP basics.
The Users section covers configuration operations; this
How to configure and Run VPP manually.
How to use the Configuration Utility to install, and then configure VPP.
The Developers section covers the following areas:
Building VPP
Describes the components of the four VPP layers
How to Create, Add, Enable/Disable features
Discusses different aspects of Bounded-index Extensible Hashing (bihash)
The Writing VPP Documentation section covers the following topics:
How to build VPP documents
How to push your changes to the VPP Docs Repository
Identifies the different styles associated to reStructuredText
Identifies the different styles associated to Markdown
- Downloading and Installing VPP
- Progressive VPP Tutorial
- For Users
- For Developers
- Building VPP
- Running VPP
- GDB Examples
- Adding a plugin
- Getting a Patch Reviewed
- Software Architecture
- VPPINFRA (Infrastructure)
- VLIB (Vector Processing Library)
- Plugins
- VNET (VPP Network Stack)
- Feature Arcs
- Buffer Metadata
- Buffer Metadata Extensions
- Multi-architecture support
- Bounded-index Extensible Hashing (bihash)
- VPP API module
- Binary API Support
- Build System
- Event-logger
- G2 graphical event viewer
- FIB 2.0 Hierarchical, Protocol, Independent
- How to build a vpp dispatch trace aware Wireshark
- Punting Packets
- QUIC HostStack
- Cross compilation on MacOS
- Writing Documents