The pw_router module provides transport-agnostic classes for routing packets over network links.

Common router interfaces


To work with arbitrary packet formats, routers require a common interface for extracting relevant packet data, such as the destination. This interface is pw::router::PacketParser, defined in pw_router/packet_parser.h, which must be implemented for the packet framing format used by the network.


The Egress class is a virtual interface for sending packet data over a network link. Egress implementations provide a single SendPacket function, which takes the raw packet data and transmits it.

Some common egress implementations are provided upstream in Pigweed.


pw::router::StaticRouter is a router with a static table of address to egress mappings. Routes in a static router never change; packets with the same address are always sent through the same egress. If links are unavailable, packets will be dropped.

Static routers are suitable for basic networks with persistent links.

Usage example

namespace {

// Define packet parser and egresses.
HdlcFrameParser hdlc_parser;
UartEgress uart_egress;
BluetoothEgress ble_egress;

// Define the routing table.
constexpr pw::router::StaticRouter::Route routes[] = {{1, uart_egress},
                                                      {7, ble_egress}};
pw::router::StaticRouter router(hdlc_parser, routes);

}  // namespace

void ProcessPacket(pw::ConstByteSpan packet) {