7 This section describes a little about the FD.io network stack and describes some benefits:
9 * Layer 2 - 4 Network Stack
11 * Fast lookup tables for routes, bridge entries
12 * Arbitrary n-tuple classifiers
13 * Control Plane, Traffic Management and Overlays
16 * `Linux <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux>`_ and `FreeBSD <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FreeBSD>`_ support
18 * Support for standard Operating System Interfaces such as AF_Packet, Tun/Tap & Netmap.
20 * Network and cryptographic hardware support with `DPDK <https://www.dpdk.org/>`_.
21 * Container and Virtualization support
23 * Para-virtualized interfaces; Vhost and Virtio
24 * Network Adapters over PCI passthrough
25 * Native container interfaces; MemIF
28 * Universal Data Plane: one code base, for many use cases
30 * Discrete appliances; such as `Routers <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Router_(computing)>`_ and `Switches <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_switch>`_.
31 * `Cloud Infrastructure and Virtual Network Functions <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_function_virtualization>`_
32 * `Cloud Native Infrastructure <https://www.cncf.io/>`_
33 * The same binary package for all use cases.
35 * Out of the box production quality, with thanks to `CSIT <https://wiki.fd.io/view/CSIT#Start_Here>`_.
37 For more information, please see :ref:`featuresbyrelease` for the complete list.
39 For more on the TCP Host Stack press next.