RARE documentation home¶

Overview¶

RARE (Router for Academia, Research & Education) is an ongoing effort under the GÉANT 5^th programme which focus on creating an Open Source routing software platform. The project aims to integrate different pieces of software related to building blocks inherent to a routing stack:

Control plane:¶

• RARE uses FreeRtr under the hood used as the control plane component

Programmable dataplane¶

• P4, DPDK, XDP or TCPDUMP/libpcap are possible candidates

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