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VRF: Now Appearing in Your Favorite OS Distributions
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One Line Summary
This talk will go over the status of the VRF feature for Linux and what to expect now that VRF is showing up in OS distributions.
Abstract
Virtual Routing and Forwarding (VRF) provides traffic isolation at layer 3 for routing, similar to how you use a VLAN to isolate traffic at layer 2. The week before LPC 2015 the initial code for VRF support was pulled into the Linux networking stack. That initial code provided basic support for IPv4. A lot has happened with VRF in the 12 months since that initial series.
This talk will go over the status of the VRF feature for Linux, from capabilities by kernel release to support in userspace tools such as iproute2, libnl3 and the ifupdown2 interface manager. I will also cover what to expect now that VRF is showing up in OS distributions beginning with Ubuntu 16.04 and Debian Stretch, and examples of how to use VRF to isolate network traffic with Docker containers.
Speaker
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David Ahern
Cumulus NetworksBiography
David Ahern is currently a Member of Technical Staff with Cumulus Networks and the maintainer of the VRF implementation for Linux.
