PF_RING 8.8.0

Key Features

• Support for Napatech Flow Manager
• Support for NVIDIA BlueField 2/3

PF_RING Library

• Add pfring_flow_update struct and pfring_recv_flow
• Add PF_RING_FLOW_OFFLOAD flag to enable Flow Table offload on supported adapters
• Add PF_RING_FLOW_OFFLOAD_AUTO_UNLEARN to control tcp auto unlearn
• Add PF_RING_KEEP_CRC flag (required by Napatech)
• Fix pfring_zc_send_pkt_multi return code

PF_RING Kernel Module

• Add flow_id to generic_flow_tuple_hw_rule
• Fix crash with more than 64 rss queues
• Various minor fixes

FT Library

• Add pfring_ft_zmq_get_stats API
• Add slice action

PF_RING Capture Modules and ZC Drivers

• Add support for Napatech Flow Manager (Flow Table offload)
• Add support for NVIDIA BlueField (ARM64)
• Add jumbo support for ice-zc
• Add support for Napatech zero-copy forwarding (pfring_send_last_rx_packet)
• Fix all Intel drivers compilation on latest kernels (including Ubuntu 24)
  • ixgbevf-zc driver update v.4.18.9
  • i40e-zc driver update v.2.24.6
  • iavf-zc driver update v.4.9.5
• Extend Napatech interface name to support adapter ID
• Fix drop counter on NVIDIA/Mellanox Connect-X (read phy discards in addition to buffer discards)
• Fix crash with more than 64 rss queues
• Fix iavf (i40e VF) ring initialization
• Fix driver dependency intel_auxiliary

PF_RING-aware Libpcap/Tcpdump

• New pfring-aware tcpdump 4.99.4

Examples

• New pfflow_offload sample app with support for Napatech Flow Manager
• pfsend
  • Fix ipv6 packet forging
  • Add eth header when replaying RAW capture files
  • Add -U / -K options to control flow distribution
  • Fix on the fly packets generation
  • Fix -A when -O is used
• pfsend_multichannel
  • Add -C to support multiple TX channels with Napatech
• pfbridge
  • Add support for Napatech zero-copy forwarding

Misc

• Improve pf_ringctl to auto generate hugepages.conf based on numa nodes
• Change MAX_CAPLEN to 65600 to correctly handle max jumbo packet size
• Remove deprecated code for Accolade and fm10k