Link-Inline™ Software 3.0.3 for Linux
2023-10-19 10:54

This is a maintenance release in the Napatech Link-Inline Software 3.0 series (see features below): This release updates the FPGA image relevant to the 3.0 series:

  • NT200D11 FPGA image:
    • 9563-55-28

We recommend to use the this latest version of this image due to updates done in 3.0.3

This release resolves these Support issues compared to previous maintenance release:

  • Support-ID 45136: dpdk-testpmd is seg faulting if setup with more than Tx=32 and Rx=32 queues
  • Support-ID 45164: the NIC is sending out a corrupted packet if the UPF payload is lesser than 14B (Link Inline 3.0.5)
  • Support-ID 45183: testpmd command bad arguments
  • Support-ID 45216: incorrect checksum when applying gtp header encapsulation to ICMP/TCP packets


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: