Release Note for Napatech Link-Inline™ Software version 3.0.2 for Linux

Release date

2023-09-28

Description

Software package version ntinl_package-linux-3.0.2.

Notes

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
Reported in this support RMT:

  • Support-ID 45191: AMD/A5G UPF Integration RTE Flow maintenance release issue

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:

Operating systems

The following operating systems are supported:

  • Linux 4.18 (64-bit) or newer (only bare-metal environment)
  • Linux 5.7 (64-bit) or newer (both bare-metal and virtualized environment

    The software has been qualified on: CentOS 8 Stream

Software for virtualized environment

The following software versions are supported:

  • Kubernetes: 1.26.5 or newer
  • containerd: 1.7.1 or newer
  • docker: 24.0.5 or newer

Hardware / FPGA images
Hardware FPGA images Description
NT200A02 200-9563-55-24 2x100G port speed, Inline Flow Management
Supported server architectures

  • Intel x86 64 bit
  • AMD EPYC Gen2 64 bit

ImgCtrl version

3.18.2

Test status

Complete test plan

Documentation

Documentation is not included in this package but is available on the Napatech Documentation Portal (see links above)

Release note generated at

2023-09-28