Various Settings

Installation and Use of Napatech Link™ Capture Software for Intel® PAC with Intel® Arria® 10 GX FPGA

Platform
Content Type
Quick Guide
Capture Software Version
Link™ Capture Software 12.3

Use the Various Settings page to adjust the Rx interface buffer size and to control time synchronization.

The Various Settings page

The upper area displays the available SmartNICs and the port numbering. See SmartNICs and Port Speeds.

In the lower area, you can adjust Rx interface buffer size and time synchronization.

Various Settings screen

You can adjust the buffer size for Rx interfaces in increments of 4 MB. The minimum size is 16 MB.

By default, time-stamping on all SmartNICs is based on the internal clock reference on each SmartNIC. To ensure synchronous time-stamping across the SmartNICs, you can set the internal clock reference on each SmartNIC to be synchronized with the OS time on the server.