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Link-Capture™ Software for Napatech FPGA SmartNICs

Link-Capture™ Software 12.11.8

This release is a maintenance release in the 12.11 series which has introduced these features:

  • Libpcap RPM package.
  • Support for running ntservice as non root user.
  • NT400D11:
    • Support for 2x100G with Capture Test & Measurement feature set (new FPGA image: 200-9567-61-11)
    • Limitation: PPS not supported

We recommend to use the latest version of this image due to updates done in this release.

  • NT200A02 FPGA image:
    • 9521-60-05
    • 9543-47-10
    • 9535-60-06
    • 9555-60-06

Please refer to the documentation and release notes for details on the new features, bug fixes and which SmartNIC products the new features apply to.
This release resolves these Support issue compared to the 12.11.7: (12.11.8) Support-ID 45371: Support for FGPA version 9567-61-11

Windows Version 12.9.3
January 2023

Download the Windows release here.

Linux Version 12.11.8
March 2024

Download the Linux release here.

Link-Inline™ Software for Napatech FPGA SmartNICs

Link-Inline™ Software 3.1.3

This Link-Inline 3.1.3 is a maintenance release in the Napatech Link-Inline Software 3.1 series (see features below):

This release resolves some issues with main app compilation problems and forward app port initialization failures in the previous Link-Inline 3.1.x releases

The Link-Inline 3.1.1 maintenance release updates the FPGA images relevant to the 3.1 series:

  • NT200A02 FPGA image:
    • 9563-55-36
  • NT400D11 FPGA image:
    • 9569-55-36

We recommend to use these latest versions of the images due to updates done in 3.1.1

The Link-Inline 3.1.1 maintenance release resolves these Support issues compared to previous 3.1.0 release:

  • Support-ID 45313: Rule for port 0 malfunctioning after create rule for port 1

Features in introduced in the Napatech Link-Inline Software 3.1.0 release:

  • Support for 2x100G port speed on NT400D11 with Inline Flow Management feature set
  • Support for Tx fragmentation
  • Support for DPDK 23.11
  • Support for pattern match on ethertype
  • Support for QFI pattern matching (Support-ID 45269)
  • Support for rte_flow_action update (Support-ID 45226)
  • Support for pattern match on ICMP (Support-ID 45266)

This release includes these FPGA images:

  • NT200A02:
    • 9563-55-34 (Updated)
  • NT400D11:
    • 9569-55-34 (New)

Limited features in this release:

  • Reduced Flow learning rate (in the 150k/s range)

Please refer to the documentation and release notes for details on the new features, bug fixes and which SmartNIC products the new features apply to.

Linux Version 3.1.3
March 2024

Download the Linux release here.

Link-Virtualization™ Software for Napatech FPGA SmartNICs

Link-Virtualization™ Software 4.5.3

News since 4.5.0:

  • General improvements and bugfixes on:
    • dpdk-driver
    • openstack

New Features since 4.5.0:

  • Support for Openstack Rocky
  • Vpdinfo included in release for test use
  • General improvements and bugfixes

Napatech Link-Virtualization™ Software 4.4 supports the following features:

  • Full offload of OVS-DPDK datapath
  • OVS 2.15.0
  • DPDK 20.11.1
  • Fastpath forwarding of traffic between specified vSwitch vPorts
  • OVSDB, CLI, or local flow API for configuration
  • Support for standard SDN controllers
  • OVS stateful statistics
  • Offload of 1024 megaflows (wildcarded flows)
  • Support for millions of flows into the megaflow structure
  • Extensive and configurable match processing for L2, L3, L4 packet headers
  • VLAN /VXLAN, Q in Q encapsulation/decapsulation
  • Link Aggregation (active / active, active / standby)
  • Traffic port mirroring
  • 62 datapath VFs/VMs
  • Virtio support VM live migration
  • Jumbo frame support
  • Supported on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
  • 10, 25GbE network interfaces on NT50B01, NT200A02
  • Receive Side Scaling (RSS)
  • Quality of Service (QoS)

The Napatech Link-Virtualization™ Software 4.4 release applies to these hardware platforms:

  • NT200A02 2 × 10/25 Gbit/s SmartNICs
  • NT50B01 2 × 10/25 Gbit/s SmartNICs

Linux kernel 4.5.3 and newer
August 2023

Download the Linux release here.

Open Source Software

DPDK Download for Napatech FPGA SmartNICs

Napatech DPDK additions Latest version

Download the Napatech DPDK additions for easy integration of Napatech FPGA SmartNICs with current DPDK-based applications. Offers plug-in compatible API. Supports all NICs included in off-the-shelf DPDK as well as new versions of DPDK. Napatech features: product portfolio covering 1G, 10G, 40G and 100G port speeds, zero packet loss, burst buffering, flexible CPU load distribution and protocol stack support, including tunneling. Download the Napatech DPDK additions here.

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