Packages¶
This section identifies the different VPP packages and describes their contents.
vpp¶
Vector Packet Processing executables. This is the primary package that must be installed to use VPP. This package contains:
vpp - the vector packet engine
vpp_api_test - vector packet engine API test tool
vpp_json_test - vector packet engine JSON test tool
vpp-lib¶
Vector Packet Processing runtime libraries. The ‘vpp’ package depends on this package, so it will always be installed. This package contains the VPP shared libraries, including:
vppinfra - Foundation library supporting vectors, hashes, bitmaps, pools, and string formatting.
svm - vm library
vlib - vector processing library
vlib-api - binary API library
vnet - network stack library
vpp-plugins¶
Vector Packet Processing plugin modules.
acl
dpdk
flowprobe
gtpu
ixge
kubeproxy
l2e
lb
memif
nat
pppoe
sixrd
stn
vpp-dbg¶
Vector Packet Processing debug symbols.
vpp-dev¶
Vector Packet Processing development support. This package contains development support files for the VPP libraries.
vpp-api-python¶
Python binding for the VPP Binary API.
vpp-api-lua¶
Lua binding for the VPP Binary API.
vpp-selinux-policy¶
This package contains the VPP Custom SELinux Policy. It is only generated for Fedora and CentOS distros. For those distros, the ‘vpp’ package depends on this package, so it will always be installed. It will not enable SELinux on the system. It will install a Custom VPP SELinux policy that will be used if SELinux is enabled at any time.