Link-Inline™ Software 3.0.2 for Linux
2023-09-28 14:01

The Napatech Link-Inline Software 3.0.2 is a maintenance release that resolves an issue with groups IDs shared between ports, which in some cases could cause flow from port 0 and port 1 to override each other We recommend to use the latest version of this image due to updates done in maintenance release 3.0.1

  • NT200D11 FPGA image:
    • 9563-55-24

Features in introduced in the Napatech Link-Inline Software 3.0.0:

  • Support for 2x100G port speed on NT200A02 (FPGA image 9563-55-16) with Native DPDK driver (version 22.11.1) with support for the following features
    • Flow lookup (based on Flow Matcher)
    • Policy lookup and enforcement (based on leaky bucket algorithm)
      • Support for up to 4 policies
    • MBR Policing support
    • IPv4 and IPv6 support
    • Flow mirroring support
    • Subnet filtering (E.g. Can be used for subnet filtering on a per gNB basis in a 5G networks)
    • Scatter-gather buffer system – to improve packet latency through the slow path (all packets going to the host system)
    • GTP de-/en-capsulation
    • NAT support (IPv4 only)
    • DSCP tagging support
    • Billing Counters
    • Kubernetes support using Napatech Device Plugin
    • VFs and support for connecting to VFs through Kubernetes containers
    • rte_flow configuration through remote app that access PFs thought Linux sockets
    • Inline UPF Demo application
  • 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. Documentation is available here: