Overview
RARE (Router for Academia, Research & Education) is an ongoing effort under the GÉANT 3rd programme which focus on determining if a routing software platform solution can fit R&E use cases. The project aims to integrate different pieces of software related to these building blocks:
- control plane: RARE uses FreeRouter under the hood used as the control plane component
- data plane: (not only P4)
P4behavioural language is used to describe the behavioral model packet processing behaviour of RARE data plane - and communication interface between the control plane and data plane: Interface compliant to P4Runtime specification ensure this function
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P4 is such a an example of language proposing an interface that allows data plane programmability.
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