Hoi Noah,
On 26.03.2024 08:44, Noah wrote:
Would you know how far things are going? In terms of the
active development of vvp addon to the next
LTS version of VyOs?
IPng Networks deployed VPP based routers (based on that vpp-7
article that Sander showed) in 2021. They are vanilla Debian
machines with Intel i350 (4x1G) and Intel i710 (quad 10G and dual
25G) network cards. It's been running quite well, with one dataplane
bug (that yielded VPP crashes) that was tracked down together with
the folks at Netgate in early 2022. Otherwise I've had no surprises
with ~14 routers and ~2100 BGP adjacencies or so, for nearing three
years, so I think I could claim that VPP is as stable as merchant
silicon. Famous last words!
Besides
vvp, does VyOs form part of your stack for your oss-based ISP?
I speak to the folks from VyOS from time to time. Their journey
integrating VPP into VyOS has just started and there will be some
ways to go - but you can download nightly builds with the feature
turned on and experiment with it. Be aware that some features work
well (forwarding, OSPF, BGP), while others don't yet (for example,
ACLs or NAT or ISIS). I've promised them to take VyOS out for a spin
and write about it, but I haven't started that yet :)
I do not use VyOS at IPng. It's "just" Debian Bookworm with the VPP
debian packages, and Bird2 as a controlplane.
groet,
Pim
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