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:
• 9563-55-34

NOTE: Only this version of the FPGA image is supported by this release

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

• Support-ID 45229: issue about flow priority handling at group 0
• Support-ID 45227: Match failed because of HW resource limitations
• Support-ID 45230: Testpmd error occurred when adding flows rules with some kind of order

This release also adds support for this feature:

• Support QFI pattern matching

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:

• Link-Inline™ Software User Guide
• Link-Inline™ Software Features
• Link-Inline™ Software 3.0 Release Summary