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From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com>
Subject: Re: RFC - IPsec Sample App
Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2015 10:35:54 +0200
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2015-09-16 09:29, Gonzalez Monroy, Sergio:
> We are looking for feedback on the proposal to create a new sample 
> application
[...]
> A set of generic APIs for the configuration of IPsec security policies and
> associations will be provided, which will be independent of the 

How can you have some API in a sample application?
It looks like an IPsec library, not an application.
Are we going to add a library for each protocol in DPDK like it is done
in the Linux kernel stack (including OVS)? Probably no.