This VPP package provides a rtnetlink-based library to be used by VPP plugins and other extensions.

The library and test plugin can be compiled by copying netlink.mk into VPP's build tree build-data/packages/ directory and using VPP make target netlink-install.

Note that VPP build system can be configured to look in other directories for additional build-data/packages/ directories by adding those to build-root/build-config.mk SOURCE_PATH variable.

This library is still under active development, which means the defined headers and functions are subject to changes without notice.

This effort intends to be a building block for a better integration of VPP into Linux. It will evolve depending on the needs of the VPP community while focusing on the relations between VPP plugins and the Linux networking stack.

Pierre Pfister - LF-ID:ppfister