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Switch from OVS-based Mininet to VPP #23

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fruffy opened this issue Mar 1, 2019 · 0 comments
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Switch from OVS-based Mininet to VPP #23

fruffy opened this issue Mar 1, 2019 · 0 comments
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fruffy commented Mar 1, 2019

OVS is slow, cumbersome, and overengineered for our purposes. A nice alternative would be a VPP or XDP based switching framework which is much more lightweight and flexible. The hope is that this will result in saved CPU cycles and more accurate results.
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