aregm/nff-go

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What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

NFF-Go is a set of Go libraries for building and deploying high-performance, cloud-native network functions (NFs) on top of DPDK and AF_XDP. It provides higher-level abstractions than DPDK, a flow-based programming model, and automatic scaling of packet processing across cores.

Use cases

• build a high-performance packet-processing firewall in Go
• write network functions without deep DPDK expertise
• implement an ACL-based L3 firewall
• process packets from DPDK PMDs and Linux AF_XDP with one codebase
• auto-scale packet processing based on traffic load
• deploy network functions as cloud-native containers

When to choose

• you need DPDK-class packet throughput but prefer Go over C
• you want to build NFV/VNF workloads as cloud-native microservices
• you want automatic core scaling of packet pipelines
• you need to handle packets from multiple driver types with a single application

When to avoid

• you need a framework with active ongoing development and recent community activity
• you target platforms other than Linux
• you need full low-level DPDK control or features not exposed by the framework
• your team is not comfortable with Go

Facets

framework · maturity maintenance

networking middleware concurrency cryptography networking cloud-computing developer-tools microservices go dpdk nfv vnf packet-processing cloud-native af-xdp ipsec network-functions linux docker

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