Link™ Capture Software 12.1.6 for Linux
2020-03-18 10:23

The Link™ Capture Software 12.1.6 package is a maintenance release in the Link™ Capture Software 12.1 series. Please see list of resolved issues below.

The Link™ Capture Software 12.1 release series introduces support for 2x10/25G on the Napatech NT200A02 SmartNIC. With this extension the NT200A02 SmartNIC supports a broad range of use cases requiring 10G, 25G, 40G and 100G network connectivity.

    8x10G
    2x10/25G BASE-SR, LR and LR-BiDi(NEW)
    2x40G
    2x100G

This maintenance release contains update to the driver (and tools), whereas the other elements are the same as in the 12.1.5 package.

These features are added
   (12.1.6) Support-ID 43304: Suport for CentOS 8.1
   (12.1.6) Support-ID 43358: Suport for CentOS 8.1

These issue reports are resolved compared to v12.1.0:

   (12.1.5) Support-ID 43313: Sample timestamp functionality does not work on NT200A02 (may cause application to crash)
   (12.1.4) Support-ID 43303: imgctrl is not able to do image update on NT80E3 nor NT100E3
   (12.1.3) Support-ID 43201: SDRam CRC errors on NT40E3 with FPGA image 200-9537 installed
   (12.1.2) Support-ID 42636: NTPL containing OR\'ed length tests AND\'ed with another expression cause unknown error
   (12.1.2) Support-ID 42701: ntservice hanging if specifying more than the allowed 128 tx host buffers in ntservice.ini
   (12.1.2) Support-ID 42723: NTPL statements with certain combinations of AND and OR may trigger a buffer overflow
   (12.1.2) Support-ID 42887: Transmission of packets from tx host-buffers larger than 2 GB, may result in reduced Tx performance
   (12.1.2) Support-ID 43032: Color statistics is not counted until traffic is assigned to a stream
   (12.1.2) Support-ID 43046: Repeatedly replay of packets from large pcap files is not working properly (See also ID 42887)
   (12.1.2) Support-ID 43061: Local retransmit doesn\'t work when combined with IPMatch filtering
   (12.1.2) Support-ID 43063: Key test using NOT EQUAL isn\'t always configured correctly
   (12.1.2) Support-ID 43083: Incorrect duplicate recognition due to trunkated keys
   (12.1.2) Support-ID 43216: PTP telecom profile is not properly supported (Skew=0 and In-Sync=N/A) on NT200A01/02