Hi! I'd like to use FRR and VPP together as a router. I'm planning to use Free Range Routing 3.0.2's bgpd and zebra as the control plane, and using zebra's FIB push feature to manage a VPP 17.10 control plane. I'm busy building a python app which acts as a forwarding plane manager (fpm) and listens for the netlink messages which zebra sends. I'll then add and remove routes in VPP with the VPP Python API. That's the current plan. I've looked into the Sandbox Router related links: https://wiki.fd.io/view/VPP_Sandbox/router https://github.com/FRRouting/frr/wiki/Alternate-forwarding-planes:-VPP https://lists.fd.io/pipermail/vpp-dev/2017-July/005828.html Some questions: Does the FPM plan above make sense, or is there an obvious easier way to do this? Should I be building the FPM to use Protobuf messages, rather than Netlink? Know of any other FPM projects for FRR and VPP I can look at? Seems ONOS does something similar in Java. Would I need the tap devices in the OS, as the VPP Sandbox router plugin uses? or, do I just add other "dummy" interfaces in the OS which match the IPs of the real DPDK interfaces? Does anybody know of a project that's connecting FRR3 and VPP 17.10, or similar new'ish versions, to end up with a bgp border router? -- Swimmingly, Joe www.swimgeek.com/blog +27 82 562 6167 instagram.com/joe.swimgeek "...all progress depends on the unreasonable man."