In this document
This document contains information about SW installation for Linux related to SmartNICs with Napatech Link-Capture™ Software.
Napatech Link-Capture™ Software provides a kernel mode
driver, a user mode service (ntservice), an API (NTAPI), tools for
configuring and monitoring SmartNICs, and tools for capturing and generating network traffic
using SmartNICs.
Note: SmartNICs with Napatech Link-Capture™ Software do not show up as standard
network interfaces when you run standard network tools such as ifconfig
or ip. You must use Napatech-specific tools to configure and monitor
the SmartNICs. In this installation guide, the tools imgctrl (only
applies to Napatech SmartNICs) and adapterinfo are used to verify steps
in the installation process.
Note: You must install libpcap with Napatech extensions
in order to use PCAP applications with SmartNICs running Napatech Link-Capture™ Software. This installation guide
includes installation of libpcap with Napatech extensions. Please refer to DN-0428 for information about configuration of
libpcap with Napatech extensions.
CAUTION:
Refer to these documents for
information on how to install a Napatech SmartNIC in a server:
- NT400D11-SCC: DN-1328
- NT400D11-NEBS: DN-1329
- NT200A02-SCC: DN-1169
- NT200A02-NEBS: DN-1200
- NT100A01-SCC: DN-1261
- NT100A01-NEBS: DN-1262
- NT50B01: DN-1251
- NT40A11-SCC: DN-1326
- NT40A11-NEBS: DN-1327
- NT40A01-SCC: DN-0954
- NT40A01-NEBS: DN-0955
- NT40E3-4-PTP: DN-0797
- NT40E3-4-PTP-NEBS: DN-0897
- NT20E3-2-PTP: DN-0904
- NT20E3-2-PTP-NEBS: DN-0905
Terminology
In this document the term NT40E3-4-PTP does not include NT40E3-4-PTP-NEBS SmartNICs, and the term NT20E3-2-PTP does not include NT20E3-2-PTP-NEBS SmartNICs.