Link-Inline™ Software 3.1.3 for Linux
2024-03-05 14:55

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. Documentation is available here: