--- name: Linux Control Plane (integration) maintainer: Neale Ranns <neale@grahpiant.com> description: |- This plugin provides the beginnings of an integration with the Linux network stack. The plugin provides the capability to 'mirror' VPP interfaces in the Linux kernel. This means that for any interface in VPP the user can create a corresponding TAP or TUN device in the Linux kernel and have VPP plumb them together. The plumbing mechanics is different in each direction. In the RX direction, all packets received on a given VPP interface that are punted (i.e. are not dropped or forwarded) are transmitted on its mirror interface (this includes for example ARP, ND etc, so the recommendation is to disable ARP, ND, ping plugin). In the TX direction, packets received by VPP an the mirror Tap/Tun are cross-connected to the VPP interfaces. For IP packets, IP output features are applied. This is the beginnings of integration, because there needs to be an external agent that will configure (and synchronize) the IP configuration of the paired interfaces. state: experimental properties: [API, CLI, MULTITHREAD]