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This control plane supports a tremendous amount of features, in addition
FreeRouter lead developer is part of the RARE team, which dramatically increases
development effort related to control Plane/data plane interface communication.
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You can adapt your own control plane as soon as it is compliant to RARE dataplane
P4 interface. It is recommended though to use FreeRouter as it was built and test
against it. RARE P4 data plane interface will be published subsequently. For the brave
one or people who are in a hurry, just look at bf_forwarder message loop.