Benefits

Stateful Flow Management

Platform
Napatech SmartNIC
Content Type
User Guide
Capture Software Version
Link™ Capture Software 12.6

There are a number of benefits of using stateful flow management.

Benefits for packet processing

When using stateful flow management, all packets belonging to the same flow:
  • Are handled in the same way.
  • Are sent to the same queue, process or thread.
  • Have the same flow ID included in the metadata, which enables application acceleration.

Benefits for flow processing

When using stateful flow management, flows have these features:
  • Metadata and metrics can be collected in the SmartNIC.
  • Flow Info records can be delivered to the application at flow termination.
  • There is one Flow Info record for each bidirectional flow with metadata and metrics in each direction.
  • NetFlow/IPFIX is supported.