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Link-Capture™ Software for Napatech FPGA SmartNICs

Link-Capture™ Software 12.11.15

This release is a maintenance release in the 12.11 series which fixes some minor issues related to the use of the ntplugin. Please note that the ntplugin is not included in this release.

Windows Version 12.9.3
January 2023

Download the Windows release here.

Linux Version 12.11.15
May 2024

Download the Linux release here.

Link-Inline™ Software for Napatech FPGA SmartNICs

Link-Inline™ Software 3.2.0

Napatech Link-Inline Software 3.2.0 is a release that introduces these new features:

  • Support for DPDK templates
  • Support for RSS on inner packet(L2)
  • Support for Events for FPGA load (not polling)
  • Support for rte_flow_dev_dump API
  • Improved Flow learning rate on bare-metal (3 million flows/s range)

This release includes these FPGA images:

  • NT200A02:
    • 9563-55-38 (Updated)
  • NT400D11:
    • 9569-55-38 (Updated)

This release resolves these support issues compared to Link-Inline 3.1.0 release:

  • Support-ID 45376: Definition for nt4ga_adapter_init function not found when compiling with VPP
  • Support-ID 45330: The stats getting updated for both ports 0 and 1 even adding meter_id to uplink flow port 0 only
  • Support-ID 45313: Rule for port 0 malfunctioning after create rule for port 1
  • Issues with main app compilation problems and forward app port initialization failures

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. Documentation is available here:

Linux Version 3.2.0
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.