Contents of the Link™ Capture Software 12.7 Release

Link™ Capture Software 12.7 Release Summary

Platform
Intel® PAC
Napatech SmartNIC
Content Type
Release Summary
Capture Software Version
Link™ Capture Software 12.7

Hardware platforms

The Link™ Capture Software 12.7 release applies to these hardware platforms:

  • Intel® Programmable Acceleration Card with Intel® Arria® 10 GX FPGA
  • NT200A02 SmartNICs
  • NT200A01 SmartNICs
  • NT100A01 SmartNICs
  • NT100E3-1-PTP SmartNICs
  • NT80E3-2-PTP SmartNICs
  • NT80E3-2-PTP-8×10/2×40 SmartNICs
  • NT50B01 SmartNICs
  • NT40A01 SmartNICs
  • NT40E3-4-PTP SmartNICs
  • NT20E3-2-PTP SmartNICs

Operating systems

The Link™ Capture Software 12.7 release supports:

  • Linux kernel 3.x, 4.x and 5.x, 64-bit
    Note: For Intel® PAC with Intel® Arria® 10 GX FPGA only Linux kernel 3.10 through 4.7 are supported.
  • Windows Server 2016 and Windows Server 2019, 64-bit
Note: NT50B01 and Intel® PAC with Intel® Arria® 10 GX FPGA are only supported for Linux.
Note: The 2 × 25/10 Gbit/s image for NT200A01 and the 4 × 10/1 SLB image for NT40A01 are only supported for Linux.

Supported server architectures

These server architectures are supported:

  • Intel® x86 64-bit
  • 2nd Gen AMD EPYC™ 64-bit

New features

These features are new in the Link™ Capture Software 12.7 release:

  • Support of a configurable parameter, SDRAMSplit in the ntservice.ini file for memory split between packet buffering and flow matching on the onboard SDRAM of NT200A02 SmartNICs running on a flow management image and NT100A1 SmartNICs running on a flow management image.
  • Support for a 2 × 25/10 Gbit/s and a 2 × 10/1 Gbit/s test and measurement image on NT50B01.
  • Conditional and generic header stripping of received frames on NT100A01 SmartNICs running on a test and measurement image.
  • Conditional packet masking of received frames based on dynamic and fixed offsets on NT100A01 SmartNICs running on a test and measurement image.
  • VLAN tagging of frames to be locally retransmitted to enable load balancing on NT100A01 SmartNICs running on a test and measurement image.

Napatech Link™ Capture Software features

The general features of Napatech Link™ Capture Software are described in Napatech Link™ Capture Software Features.

Product packages

The Link™ Capture Software 12.7 release consists of these product packages:

  • ntanl_package_3gd-12.7.x-linux
  • ntanl_package_3gd-12.7.x-windows

The ntanl_package_3gd-12.7.x-linux product package includes FPGA images for the NT SmartNICs (with imgctrl tool for upgrading), two Accelerator Functional Units (AFUs) for the Intel® Programmable Acceleration Card with Intel® Arria® 10 GX FPGA for running at 1 × 40 Gbit/s and at 4 × 10 Gbit/s, respectively, driver software, tools packages, libpcap and documentation. The software components are described in Software.

The ntanl_package_3gd-12.7.x-windows product package includes FPGA images for the NT SmartNICs (with imgctrl tool for upgrading), driver software, tools packages, WinPcap and documentation. The software components are described in Software.

Included documents

The Link™ Capture Software 12.7 release includes these documents:
Note: All of these documents are not necessarily included in each product package.
Note: The documents can also be found on docs.napatech.com (the Napatech Documentation Portal).
  • Napatech, NT SmartNICs with Napatech Link™ Capture Software, Getting Started, Overview Document, DN-0931 (UPDATED)
  • Napatech, Napatech Link™ Capture Software for Intel® PAC with Intel® Arria® 10 GX FPGA, Installation and Use, Quick Guide, DN-1113
  • Napatech, Using the Napatech Support Portal, User Guide, DN-1118
  • Napatech, Link™ Capture Software 12.7, Release Summary, DN-1299 (NEW)
  • Napatech, From Link™ Capture Software 12.6 to Link™ Capture Software 12.7, Migration Document, DN-1300 (NEW)
  • Napatech, From Green Bay 2 to Link™ Capture Software 12.7, Migration Document, DN-1301 (NEW)
  • Napatech, NT200A02-SCC, Installation and Specifications, Hardware Installation Guide, DN-1169
  • Napatech, NT200A02-NEBS, Installation and Specifications, Hardware Installation Guide, DN-1200
  • Napatech, NT200A01-SCC, Installation and Specifications, Hardware Installation Guide, DN-1016
  • Napatech, NT200A01-NEBS, Installation and Specifications, Hardware Installation Guide, DN-1017
  • Napatech, NT100A01-SCC, Installation and Specifications, Hardware Installation Guide, DN-1261
  • Napatech, NT100A01-NEBS, Installation and Specifications, Hardware Installation Guide, DN-1262
  • Napatech, NT100E3-1-PTP, Installation and Specifications, Hardware Installation Guide, DN-0848
  • Napatech, NT100E3-1-PTP-NEBS, Installation and Specifications, Hardware Installation Guide, DN-0896
  • Napatech, NT80E3-2-PTP, Installation and Specifications, Hardware Installation Guide, DN-0980
  • Napatech, NT80E3-2-PTP-NEBS, Installation and Specifications, Hardware Installation Guide, DN-0981
  • Napatech, NT50B01, Installation and Specifications, Hardware Installation Guide, DN-1251
  • Napatech, NT40A01-SCC, Installation and Specifications, Hardware Installation Guide, DN-0954
  • Napatech, NT40A01-NEBS, Installation and Specifications, Hardware Installation Guide, DN-0955
  • Napatech, NT40E3-4-PTP, Installation and Specifications, Hardware Installation Guide, DN-0797
  • Napatech, NT40E3-4-PTP-NEBS, Installation and Specifications, Hardware Installation Guide, DN-0897
  • Napatech, NT20E3-2-PTP, Installation and Specifications, Hardware Installation Guide, DN-0904
  • Napatech, NT20E3-2-PTP-NEBS, Installation and Specifications, Hardware Installation Guide, DN-0905
  • Napatech, Napatech Link™ Software, Software Installation for Linux, Software Installation Guide, DN-0379
  • Napatech, Napatech Link™ Capture Software, Software Installation for Windows and WinPcap-NT Installation, Software Installation Guide, DN-1067 (UPDATED)
  • Napatech, Napatech Link™ Capture Software, Napatech libpcap Installation, Software Installation Guide, DN-0428 (UPDATED)
  • Napatech, Napatech Link™ Capture Software, Software Architecture, Overview Document, DN-0810 (UPDATED)
  • Napatech, Napatech Software Suite, Reference Documentation, DN-0449 (UPDATED)
  • Napatech, Napatech Link™ Software, Handling FPGA Images, User Guide, DN-0487
  • Napatech, SmartNICs with Napatech Link™ Capture Software, Basic Troubleshooting, User Guide, DN-0737
  • Napatech, Napatech Link™ Capture Software, Time-Stamping and Time Synchronization, User Guide, DN-0985 (UPDATED)
  • Napatech, Napatech Link™ Capture Software, Statistics, User Guide, DN-0986
  • Napatech, Napatech Link™ Capture Software, Multi-CPU Distribution, User Guide, DN-0988
  • Napatech, Napatech Link™ Capture Software, Stateful Flow Management, User Guide, DN-1227 (UPDATED)
  • Napatech, Napatech Link™ Capture Software, Running Snort on Linux, Application Note, DN-0666
  • Napatech, Napatech Link™ Capture Software, Opening Multiple Network Streams as One, Application Note, DN-0740
  • Napatech, NT SmartNICs with Napatech Link™ Capture Software, Qualifying, Fine-Tuning and Troubleshooting Time Synchronization, Application Note, DN-0793
  • Napatech, NT80E3-2-PTP, Running at 8 × 10 Gbit/s, Application Note, DN-1133
  • Napatech, Napatech Link™ Capture Software Features, Feature Description, DN-1128 (UPDATED)