Configuration types
Configuration is carried out in four different ways:
- Static – set up in the ntservice.ini configuration file
- Dynamic – through NTPL (Napatech programming language)
- Dynamic – through the configuration stream
- Dynamic – through command line tools
Configuration of various features
This table shows which features are configured by which methods.
| Option | ntservice.ini | NTPL | API | Tool |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Time stamp parameters | X | |||
| Time synchronization parameters | X | |||
| Transmission parameters | X | X | ||
| Maximum frame size | X | |||
| Packet descriptors | X | X | ||
| Physical NUMA node | X | |||
| Socket load balancing | X | |||
| QPI bypass | X | |||
| Host buffers | X | |||
| Filtering | X | |||
| Slicing | X | |||
| Local retransmission | X | |||
| IP fragment handling | X | |||
| Line loopback | X | X | ||
| Host loopback | X | X | ||
| Link speed | X | X | ||
| Link duplex | X | X | ||
| Link MDI | X | X | ||
| Link advertising | X | X | ||
| Link IFG minimum/maximum | X | X |