Release Note for Napatech Link™ Capture Software version 12.4.5 for Linux
Release date
2020-10-23
Description
Software package version ntanl_package_3gd-linux-12.4.5.
This is a maintenance release addressing two cases, one related to the support for the qualified transceiver FTLC9558REPM and one related to the ability to use imgctrl to downgrade an FPGA image from a newer version not known by imgctrl to an older known version of the FPGA image supported by the given adapter.
The Napatech Link™ Capture 12.4 software release series introduced support for 2x1/10G on NT200A02 and improved timestamp precision and accuracy for 1G and 10G on NT40E3
Please see the software release note for further details.
Please refer to the documentation and release notes for details on the new features, bugfix’es and which SmartNIC products the new features apply to.
Feature summary (new and improved features):
- NT200A02:
- 2x1/10G support with optimized timestamp precision and accuracy added to Capture/Replay feature set (new FPGA image 200-9555-32-10)
- Tx path latency values available via NTAPI for 2x25G, 2x40G and 2x100G with Capture Test & Measurement feature set
- NT40E3:
- Improved timestamp precision and accuracy for 1G and 10G on NT40E3-4-PTP Capture/Replay CR2 feature set (FPGA image 200-9538-34-09)
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 -> 5.08 (64-bit)
The software has been qualified on: CentOS 7 and CentOS 8
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 | 200-9538-34-09 | 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 |
| INTEL-A10 | 200-7000-27-02 | 4x10G port speed | 200-7001-27-02 | 1x40G 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 | 200-9555-32-10 | 2x1/10G port speed |
Supported server architectures
- Intel x86 64 bit
- AMD EPYC Gen2 64 bit
Driver version
3.22.2
LibPCAP version
3.18.3
Tools version
3.22.2
ImgCtrl version
3.12.3
Test status
Complete test plan
Documentation
12.4.2
Release note generated at
2020-10-26