Release Note for Napatech Link-Inline™ Software version 3.2.0 for Linux

Release date

2022-03-22

Description

Software package version ntinl_package-linux-3.2.0.

Notes

Napatech Link-Inline Software 3.2.0 is a release that introduces these new features:

  • Support for DPDK templates
  • Support for RSS on inner packet(L2)
  • Support for Events for FPGA load (not polling)
  • Support for rte_flow_dev_dump API
  • Improved Flow learning rate on bare-metal (3 million flows/s range)
This release includes these FPGA images:
  • NT200A02:
    • 9563-55-38 (Updated)
  • NT400D11:
    • 9569-55-38 (Updated)
This release resolves these support issues compared to Link-Inline 3.1.0 release:
  • Support-ID 45376: Definition for nt4ga_adapter_init function not found when compiling with VPP
  • Support-ID 45330: The stats getting updated for both ports 0 and 1 even adding meter_id to uplink flow port 0 only
  • Support-ID 45313: Rule for port 0 malfunctioning after create rule for port 1
  • Issues with main app compilation problems and forward app port initialization failures

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

    The software has been qualified on: CentOS 8 Stream and Ubuntu 22.04

Software for virtualized environment

The following software versions are supported:

  • Kubernetes: 1.28.6
  • containerd: 1.7.13
  • docker: 25.0.4

Hardware / FPGA images
Hardware FPGA images Description
NT200A02 200-9563-55-38 2x100G port speed, Inline Flow Management
NT400D11 200-9569-55-38 2x100G port speed, Inline Flow Management
Supported server architectures

The following server architectures are supported:

  • 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

2024-03-22