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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Hello All,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">In conjunction with the release of VPP 18.10, we'd like to invite you all to try out networking-vpp 18.10 for VPP 18.10.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">As many of you may already know, VPP is a fast user space forwarder based on the DPDK toolkit. VPP uses vector packet<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">processing algorithms to minimize the CPU time spent on each packet to maximize throughput.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Networking-vpp is a ML2 mechanism driver that controls VPP on your control and compute hosts to provide fast L2 forwarding<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">under Neutron.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">In this release, we have made improvements to fully support the network trunk service plugin. Using this plugin, you can attach<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">multiple networks to an instance by binding it to a single vhostuser trunk port. The APIs are the same as the OpenStack Neutron trunk<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">service APIs. You can also now bind and unbind subports to a bound network trunk.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Another feature we have improved in this release is the Tap-as-a-service(TaaS). The TaaS code has been updated to handle any out of order<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">etcd messages received during agent restarts. You can use this service to create remote port mirroring capability for tenant virtual networks.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Besides the above, this release also has several bug fixes, VPP 18.10 API compatibility and stability related improvements.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">The README [1] explains how you can try out VPP using devstack: the devstack plugin will deploy the mechanism driver and VPP 18.10<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">and should give you a working system with a minimum of hassle.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">We will be continuing our development between now and VPP's 19.01 release. There are several features we're planning to work on<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">and we will keep you updated through our bugs list [2]. We welcome anyone who would like to come help us.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Everyone is welcome to join our biweekly IRC meetings, every other Monday (the next one is due this Monday at 0800 PT = 1600 GMT.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="FI" style="font-size:11.0pt">-- <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="FI" style="font-size:11.0pt">Ian & Naveen<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="FI" style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="FI" style="font-size:11.0pt">[1]https://github.com/openstack/networking-vpp/blob/master/README.rst<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">[2]http://goo.gl/i3TzAt<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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