Release date

2019-12-19

Description

Software package version ntanl_package_3gd-linux-12.0.8.

The Link™ Capture Software 12.0.8 release introduces a new feature set with support for Stateful Flow Management on the Napatech NT200A02 SmartNIC. The new feature set is named “Capture Flow Management” and the current feature set is named “Capture/Replay”.
The major new features in the Capture Flow Management feature set are:

• Up to 50 million bidirectional flows
• Flow termination detected in HW, enabling flow shunting or white-listing/black-listing with full offload in HW
• Flow metrics maintained in HW and delivered to the application upon flow termination

Other notes on the Capture Flow Management feature set:

• Supported port speed configurations: 8x10G and 2x40G
• Packet buffering: 1.5GB
• Correlation and deduplication is not included
• Key match is not included

The Napatech driver supports both feature sets, and feature set and port speed configurations are selected through the active FPGA image:

• NT200A02 FPGA images for Capture Flow Management feature set:
• 200-9534: 8x10G
• 200-9535: 2x40G
• NT200A02 FPGA images for Capture/Replay feature set (current features from Link Capture 11.x):
• 200-9533: 8x10G (image file not included in this package)
• 200-9526: 2x40G (image file not included in this package)
• 200-9521: 2x100G (image file not included in this package)

Please refer to the documentation for instructions on how to load and activate an FPGA image.

Operating systems

The Napatech software package applies to these operating systems:

• Linux 3.0 -> 3.19 (64-bit)
• Linux 4.0 -> 4.18 (64-bit)
• Linux 5.0 -> 5.03 (64-bit)
  
  The software has been qualified on: CentOS 7 and CentOS 8

Hardware / FPGA images

Hardware	FPGA images	Description
NT200A02	200-9534-21-28	8x10G port speed, Capture Flow Management
	200-9535-21-28	2x40G port speed, Capture Flow Management

Driver version

3.18.0

LibPCAP version

3.18.1

Tools version

3.18.0

ImgCtrl version

3.10.1

Test status

Complete test plan.

Documentation

Documentation is available in the "Documentation" folder.

Release note generated at

2019-12-19