Introduction

Enabling the Napatech SmartNICs with Link-Capture™ Software in Containers

Platform
Napatech SmartNIC
Content Type
Application Note
Capture Software Version
Link™ Capture Software 12.11

Resolving all dependencies can be challenging when multiple applications run on a single system. Running multiple applications in containers provides the advantage of allowing each application, with different dependencies, to access the same driver running on the host system.

In this document

This document describes how to run Napatech SmartNICs with Napatech Link-Capture™ Software tools and applications in a container. This document includes descriptions of:
  • How to install docker.
  • How to install and configure a container.
  • How to run throughput in a container.
Note: In this document, it is assumed that the Napatech Link-Capture™ Software package is installed in the default installation directory, /opt/napatech3/. If the Napatech Link-Capture™ Software package is installed elsewhere, the correct installation directory must be used.
Note: The installation process is described on CentOS Stream 8 as an example. You must adapt the installation process for other Linux distributions.
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