[Xorp-hackers] Data Plane Integration

[Bruce M Simpson]

Adriano Favaro wrote:
> We are using XORP in a product development mostly on the Control Plane 
> because Data Plane is executed on-chip by our system. I would like to 
> know if anybody heard about a similar use-case for XORP.

That's pretty much how things are designed -- the forwarding plane is
not part of XORP per se.

The FEA process just wraps the existing host operating system
facilities, which typically operate in software. The FEA process would
need to be extended to support forwarding plane hardware. There is a
plug-in type interface for doing this in the code.

cheers
BMS