FDio/vpp

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1577 stars · 727 forks observed · 2026-08-28

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

FD.io's Vector Packet Processing (VPP) is an extensible, high-performance packet-processing framework providing production-quality switch and router functionality on commodity CPUs. It is the open-source version of Cisco's VPP technology, with a modular plugin architecture and rich networking feature set.

Use cases

• build a high-performance software router on commodity hardware
• implement a userspace network switch with DPDK
• process packets at high throughput for NFV workloads
• extend a network data plane with custom plugins
• build a virtual network function for cloud networking
• offload routing from the Linux kernel for better performance

When to choose

• you need production-quality layer 2/3 forwarding at very high packet rates
• you want an extensible data plane with a plugin architecture
• you are building NFV, SDN, or vSwitch/vRouter infrastructure on Linux

When to avoid

• you need a simple firewall or router for a home network
• you want a managed appliance rather than a programmable framework
• your platform is not Linux or you cannot work with C

Facets

framework · maturity stable

networking routing http-server plugin-system developer-tools networking infrastructure-as-code performance cloud-computing c cpp packet-processing dpdk software-router switch fdio high-performance network-stack linux

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