Release Note for Napatech Link™ Capture Software version 12.7.7 for Linux

Release date

2022-03-04

Description

Software package version ntanl_package_3gd-linux-12.7.7.

Notes

The Napatech Link Capture 12.7.7 software release is resolving issues with NIM link up and register reading. We recommend to use the latest version of these images due to various updates in 12.7.6.

  • NT100A01 FPGA images:
    • 9553-46-15
    • 9559-46-15
  • NT200A02 FPGA images:
    • 9534-46-15
    • 9535-46-15
    • 9536-46-15

      • This release is a maintenance release in the 12.7 series which introduced these features:
      • Support for Configurable SDRAM split between packet buffer and flow table for all FPGA images with Capture Flow Management feature set
        • NT100A01 FPGA images:
          • 9553-46-06
          • 9559-46-06
        • NT200A02 FPGA images:
          • 9534-46-06
          • 9535-46-06
          • 9536-46-10
          • 9539-23-02
          • 9540-23-02

    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.



    Operating systems

    The following operating systems are supported:

    • Linux 3.0 -> 3.19 (64-bit)
    • Linux 4.0 -> 4.18 (64-bit)
    • Linux 5.0 -> 5.11 (64-bit)

      The software has been qualified on: CentOS 7 and Ubuntu 20.04

    Hardware / FPGA images
    Hardware FPGA images Description
    NT40E3-4-PTP 200-9502-10-07 4x10G, Capture Replay, key matcher, line rate Tx
    200-9537-44-11 4x10G, Capture (CR1), key matcher, dedup
    200-9538-44-11 4x10G, Capture Replay (CR2), line rate Tx, dedup
    NT80E3-2-PTP 200-9503-28-07 2x40G, Capture Replay (CR1)
    200-9519-28-07 8x10G, Capture Replay (CR1)
    NT200A01 200-9515-20-10 2x100G, Capture, key matcher included
    200-9516-20-10 2x100G, Capture Replay, key matcher not included
    200-9531-35-25 2x10/25G, Capture Replay (CR1)
    200-9512-28-07 2x40G, Capture Replay (CR1)
    200-9522-28-07 8x10G, Capture Replay (CR1)
    NT100E3-1-PTP 200-9505-28-07 1x100G, Capture Replay (CR1)
    NT40A01 200-9517-09-08 4x10/1G port speed, Socket Load Balancer
    INTEL-A10 200-7000-27-02 4x10G, Capture Replay (CR1)
    200-7001-27-02 1x40G, Capture Replay (CR1)
    NT200A02 200-9521-43-13 2x100G, Capture Replay (CR1)
    200-9526-43-13 2x40G, Capture Replay (CR1)
    200-9532-43-13 2x10/25G, Capture Replay (CR1)
    200-9533-43-13 8x10G, Capture Replay (CR1)
    200-9534-46-15 8x10G, Capture Flow Management (FM1)
    200-9534-46-15 8x10G, Capture Flow Management (FM1)
    200-9535-46-15 2x40G, Capture Flow Management (FM1)
    200-9536-46-15 2x100G port speed, Capture Flow Management (FM1)
    200-9539-23-02 8x10G port speed, CPU Socket Load Balancer
    200-9540-23-02 2x40G port speed, CPU Socket Load Balancer
    200-9543-47-07 2x100G, Capture Test & Measurement (TM1)
    200-9545-47-07 2x10/25G, Capture Test & Measurement (TM1)
    200-9546-47-07 2x40G, Capture Test & Measurement (TM1)
    200-9549-43-13 4x10/25G, Capture Replay (CR1)
    200-9555-47-07 2x1/10G, Capture Replay (CR1)
    NT50B01 200-9541-47-07 2x10/25G, Capture Test & Measurement (TM1)
    200-9561-47-05 2x1/10G, Capture Test & Measurement (TM1)
    NT100A01 200-9553-46-15 4x10/25G, Capture Flow Management (FM1)
    200-9554-47-07 4x10/25G, Capture Test & Measurement (TM1)
    200-9560-47-10 4x1/10G, Capture Test & Measurement (TM1)
    Supported server architectures

    • Intel x86 64 bit
    • AMD EPYC Gen2 64 bit

    Driver version

    3.25.6

    LibPCAP version

    3.19.1

    Tools version

    3.25.6

    ImgCtrl version

    3.15.0

    Test status

    Complete test plan

    Documentation

    12.7.1

    Release note generated at

    2022-03-04