Release Note for Naptatech Link™ Capture Software version 11.9.0 for Linux



Release date

2019-10-31


Description

Software package version ntanl_package_3gd-linux-11.9.0.


This release introduces support for the CPU Socket Load Balancer feature on the Napatech NT200A02 SmartNIC. Packets captured on the monitoring port(s) on the primary NT200A02 SmartNIC is replicated and transferred to the secondary NT200A02 SmartNIC over interconnect cables between the two SmartNIC’s. Thereby, server system overhead due to QPI transfer between CPU sockets is eliminated. The solution supports transfer of 40G line rate captured Ethernet traffic for 1x40G or 4x10G monitoring ports.


Operating systems

The Napatech software package applies to these operating systems:

  • Linux 3.0 -> 3.19 (64-bit)
  • Linux 4.0 -> 4.20 (64-bit)
  • Linux 5.0 -> 5.03 (64-bit)

    The software has been qualified on: CentOS 7, Ubuntu 16.04LTS and Fedora 30

Hardware / FPGA images

Hardware FPGA images Description
NT200A02 200-9539-23-00 8x10G port speed, CPU Socket Load Balancer
200-9540-23-00 2x40G port speed, CPU Socket Load Balancer



Driver version

3.16.0


LibPCAP version

3.18.1


Tools version

3.16.0


ImgCtrl version

3.9.0


Test status

Complete test plan


Documentation

Documentation is available in the "Documentation" folder.


Release note generated at

2019-10-31