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In this article, we got our hand dirty and installed manually freeRouter with DPDK dataplane from a clean slate environment. This is done on purpose as I'd like you to understand the whole installation process in details. There is an an automated installation alternative that will install freeRouter also. However this is will install freeRouter with software backend. If your hardware CPU+NIC is compatible you can just replace the software backend by DPDK backend. At that precise point we have a vanilla genuine installation of freeRouter with DPDK dataplane on an appliance that can survive physical wild environment and power cut. We have just now to create the 2 freeRouter configuration files:
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