Release Note for Napatech Link-Inline™ Software version 3.1.3 for Linux

Release date

2024-03-05

Description

Software package version ntinl_package-linux-3.1.3.

Notes

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:

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 200-9563-55-36 2x100G port speed, Inline Flow Management
NT400D11 200-9569-55-36 2x100G port speed, Inline Flow Management
Supported server architectures

  • Intel x86 64 bit
  • AMD EPYC Gen2 64 bit

ImgCtrl version

3.18.3

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

2024-03-05