# FDio/vpp

Mirror of VPP code base hosted at git.fd.io

Repository: https://github.com/FDio/vpp
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/vpp
Language: C
License: Apache-2.0
License Family: permissive
Last push: 2026-08-26T19:10:43+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 77/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 99, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 3344, "days_push": 7, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1577, forks 727 (observed 2026-08-28T04:05:06.153283+00:00)

## What it is
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
- artifact type: framework
- maturity: stable
- function: networking, routing, http-server, plugin-system, developer-tools
- domain: networking, infrastructure-as-code, performance, cloud-computing
- platform: c, cpp
- tags: packet-processing, dpdk, software-router, switch, fdio, high-performance, network-stack, linux

## Member repositories
- FDio/vpp (main) score 77

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:05:06.153283+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T03:57:00.550670+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/FDio/vpp (fetched 2026-08-28T04:05:06.153283+00:00, sha 638ceba3ade1)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.