Release Note for Napatech Link™ Software Driver Version 12.2.3 for Windows


Release date

2020-04-29


Description

This release note applies to driver package ntanl_package_3gd-windows-12.2.3


Notes

This is a maintenance release of Napatech Link Capture 12.2 software, resolving a performance issue on the Windows platform.

The Napatech Link Capture 12.2 software release introduces powerful features for test & measurement applications. Nanosecond hardware transmit and receive timestamping enables precision network roundtrip delay and jitter measurements. The solution also includes advanced features for error and network jitter simulation. All of this is supported for 10G, 25G, 40G and 100G network speeds. The release also includes support for Cisco FabricPath encapsulation and bug-fix’es.

Please refer to the documentation and release notes for details on the new features, bugfix’es and which SmartNIC products the new features.

Feature summary:

  • Tx time stamp inject at offset relative to L3/L4 headers
  • L2 and L3/L4 (IP/TCP/UDP) Tx Checksums Generation
  • L2 and L3/L4 (IP/TCP/UDP) Rx Checksums Verification
  • Cisco FabricPath encapsulation

The package contains code examples to support application integration and usage of the new features.

In a default installation code examples for the Tx timestamp inject, Tx using segments with dynamic descriptors and L3/L4 checksum suppor

  • /opt/napatech3/examples/net/timestamp_inject
  • /opt/napatech3/examples/net/transmit_segment_dyn_descr
  • /opt/napatech3/examples/net/checksum


Operating systems

The Napatech driver version applies to these operating systems:

  • Windows Server 2019 (64-bit)

Hardware / FPGA images

Hardware FPGA images Description
NT20E3-2-PTP 200-9501-28-07 2x10G port speed
NT40E3-4-PTP 200-9502-10-07 4x10G port speed
200-9537-28-07 4x10G port speed Capture
200-9538-28-07 4x10G port speed Capture + Dedup
NT80E3-2-PTP 200-9503-28-07 2x40G port speed
200-9519-28-07 8x10G port speed
NT200A01 200-9515-20-10 2x100G port speed Capture
200-9516-20-10 2x100G port speed Replay
200-9531-28-08 2x10/25G port speed
200-9512-28-07 2x40G port speed
200-9522-28-07 8x10G port speed
NT40A01-4x1 200-9500-28-07 4x1G port speed
NT100E3-1-PTP 200-9505-28-07 1x100G port speed
NT200A02 200-9521-28-07 2x100G port speed
200-9526-28-07 2x40G port speed
200-9532-28-08 2x10/25G port speed
200-9533-28-07 8x10G port speed
200-9534-28-07 8x10G port speed, Capture Flow Management
200-9535-28-07 2x40G port speed, Capture Flow Management
200-9543-28-07 2x100G port speed, Test & Measurement
200-9545-28-08 2x40G port speed, Test & Measurement
200-9546-28-07 2x10/25G port speed, Test & Measurement


Windows Suite Version

3.20.3


Included in Windows Suite
Driver version

3.20.3

WinPCAP version

3.3.0

Tools version

3.20.3


ImgCtrl version

3.11.3


Test status

Complete test plan.


Documentation

Documentation is available in the “Documentation” folder.


Release note generated at

2020-04-29