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@cardigliano cardigliano released this 31 Jan 09:21
· 15 commits to 8.4.0-stable since this release
8.4.0
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PF_RING Library

  • New API pfring_get_ethtool_link_speed
  • Add vlan_id to flow rule struct
  • Add optimization flags to BPF filters compiled with pcap_compile
  • Fix pfring_open_multichannel

PF_RING Kernel Module

  • Add keep_vlan_offload option to avoid reinserting VLAN header on VLAN interfaces when used inline

ZC Library

  • New ZC APIs (available on supported adapters)
    • pfring_zc_get_device_clock
    • pfring_zc_set_device_clock
    • pfring_zc_adjust_device_clock
    • pfring_zc_send_pkt_get_time
  • Add new pfring_zc_run_fanout_v3 API to support more than 64 fan-out queues
  • Add support for capturing stack packets, used by zcount and zbalance_ipc

PF_RING Capture Modules and ZC Drivers

  • New iavf-zc driver to support i40e and ice Virtual Functions
    • Support for VF trust mode on ice adapters (promisc with SR-IOV)
  • Improve ice driver (E810 adapters)
    • Update ice driver to v.1.9.11
    • Add support to get time, set time, adjust time, send get time
  • Improvei the NVIDIA/Mellanox (mlx) driver
    • Extend hardware rules
    • Add support for VLAN filtering
    • Add set_default_hw_action API
    • Fix reported link speed
    • Fix bidirectional rules
    • Fix pfring_poll support
  • Improve the Napatech driver
    • Add nanosecond timestamp capture when using the packet API in PCAP chunk mode
  • Improve the ZC drivers API to support more callbacks
  • Add socket extensions (getsockopt/setsockopt):
    • SO_GET_DEV_STATS (get_stats ZC drivers callback)
    • SO_GET_DEV_TX_TIME (get_tx_time ZC drivers callback)
    • SO_SET_DEV_TIME (set_time ZC drivers callback)
    • SO_SET_ADJ_TIME (adjust_time ZC drivers callback)
  • Add management_only_mode to allow opening multiple sockets on the same ZC interface
  • Update drivers to support latest RH 9.1, Ubuntu 22, Debian kernels

FT Library

  • Fix double free

nBPF

  • Add icmp protocol primitive support

nPCAP

  • Update npcap lib to support for nanosecond time in packet extraction

PF_RING-aware Libpcap/Tcpdump

  • Update tcpdump to v.4.99.1
  • Update libpcap to v.1.10.1

Examples

  • Add ztime example
    • Ability to set/adjust the card clock without capturing/transmitting traffic (external process)
    • Test for the send-get-time feature
  • pfsend
    • Flush queued packets when waiting at real pcap rate and on shutdown
    • Fix headers ranzomization
    • Fix crash with -z
  • pfsend_multichannel
    • Add support for controlling IPs generated
  • pfcount
    • Add -I option to print interface info in JSON format
  • pfcount_multichannel
    • Print full packet metadata with -v
  • zbalance_ipc
    • Add support for up to 128 queues with -m 1 and -m 2 (new v3 api)
    • Add -X option to capture TX traffic (standard driver only)
    • Fix check for queues limit
  • zdelay
    • Fix queue size (power of 2)

Misc

  • Add pfcount_multichannel and pfsend_multichannel to packages
  • Service script (pf_ringctl)
    • Add support for configuring RSS via ethtool
    • Add pre/post scripts for ZC drivers
    • Handle multi-line driver conf file
  • Removed obsolete fm10k driver
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