Stateful Flow Management

Napatech Link™ Software Features

Platform
Napatech SmartNIC
Content Type
Feature Description
Capture Software Version
Link™ Capture Software 12.0

In this chapter

This chapter describes the stateful flow management feature.

See DN-1227 for more details on stateful flow management.

Note: This chapter only applies to NT200A02 running on the 2 × 40 Gbit/s FM image or on the 8 × 10 Gbit/s FM image.

Hash fundamentals

Stateful Flow Management is SHA-1 hash-based, with configurable hash key elements. Stateful Flow Management generates a 128-bit hash value as a flow signature.

The probability of a flow signature lookup collision is extremely low and can be disregarded.