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P4-Learning Documentation

This documentation contains helpful information that will help you getting started with P4. The questions that get asked often (if any) will be added to the FAQ section (which at the moment is empty). Useful resources and documentation will also be added if something new comes or if people ask about it. Before asking something check if the solution to your problem can be found in any of the following documents and links, or examples.

P4 Resources and Tutorials

• P4 Specifications: contains P4 Language and Related Specifications.
• P4-Guide: contains a lot of useful information, examples, tests of what works or what does not, etc.
• P4 Tutorial: official P4 tutorial (they use the P4Runtime).

Docs

• Getting Started: instructions for an easy deployment of P4-Learning.
• Migrate to the new version: a guide to port old network configurations (for old examples and exercises) to the new version of the P4-Utils.
• BMv2 Simple Switch: BMv2 Simple Switch implementation documentation.
• Control Plane: Simple Switch Control plane documentation.
• Debugging and Troubleshooting: debugging and troubleshooting guidelines.
• Scapy: packet manipulation library written in Python.
• P4-Utils: Mininet extension to build P4 networks.
• FAQ: list of most asked questions from students.