Protocol Match Function

Napatech Link™ Software Features

Platform
Intel® PAC
Napatech SmartNIC
Content Type
Feature Description
Capture Software Version
Link™ Capture Software 12.4

Overview

The protocol match function allows the application to define filters based on the protocol information found by the frame decoder (see Frame Classification).

Features

Functionality of the protocol match function:
  • The encapsulations, outer and inner protocols and tunnel types described in Frame Classification.
  • Arbitrary values for the outer and inner Protocol (IPv4) and Next Header (IPv6) fields (in addition to the Layer 4 protocols UDP, TCP, ICMP and SCTP).
  • MAC destination address type: control frame, broadcast, multicast or unicast frame.
  • Fragment test: Not a fragment, first, middle or last fragment.