PF_RING
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PF_RING 7.8.0 release
Published by cardigliano about 4 years ago
PF_RING Library
- Add support for Device ID and Port ID to the extended packet header
- Add Arista 7150 Series hw timestamps support (keyframes and packet trailer parsing and stripping)
- Add Metawatch Metamako hw timestamps support (packet trailer parsing and stripping)
- errno EINTR is now returned on breakloop
- Improve XDP support
- Replace configure --enable-xdp with --disable-xdp (XDP enabled by default when supported)
ZC Library
- New PF_RING_ZC_DEVICE_METAWATCH_TIMESTAMP flag to enable Metawatch hw timestamps
- New pfring_zc_get_pool_id API to get the Pool ID
- New pfring_zc_run_balancer_v2 pfring_zc_run_fanout_v2 APIs to support filtering functions
- BPF support in ZC interfaces, standard interfaces and SPSC queues
- Add support for BPF in TX queues
- Builtin GTP hash now expose GTP info (flags)
- Fix CRC strip on ixgbevf
- New pfring_ft_flow_get_id API to get the flow ID
- New PFRING_FT_IGNORE_HW_HASH flag to ignore hw packet hash
- New PKT_FLAGS_FLOW_OFFLOAD_1ST packet flag (first packet of a flow)
- Add support for flow slicing
- New API pfring_ft_flow_get_users to get flow users (in case of slicing)
- Improve application protocol detection
- Fix bogus-IP headers parsing
PF_RING-aware Libpcap/Tcpdump
- New libpcap v.191
- New tcpdump v.4.9.3
- stats.ps_recv now includes packets dropped due to out of buffer space
PF_RING Kernel Module
- Fix channels with standard drivers
- Fix 64-bit channel mask
- Fix defragmentation of packets with ethernet padding
- Fix unnecessary device mapping causing ifindex exhaustion
PF_RING Capture Modules
- Update support for Fiberblaze adapters
- Fix filtering with Accolade adapters
ZC Drivers
- New ice ZC driver supporting E800 Series Intel adapters
- Support for Ubuntu 20 LTS
- Support for CentOS/RedHat 8.2
- Fix queue attach/detach in ixgbe-zc
- Support for kernel 5.4
nBPF
- Add support for matching Local/Remote IP (new extended-BPF primitives)
- Support uppercase AND/OR in extended-BPF filters
- Fix extended-BPF grammar
Examples
- New zfilter_mq_ipc sample app (packet filtering with multiple threads and fanout to multiple consumer processes)
- ftflow:
- New -H option to ignore hw hash setting PFRING_FT_IGNORE_HW_HASH
- New -t option to print stats only
- ftflow_dpdk
- New -l option to run loopback tests
- Add RX/TX ring size configuration
- pfsend:
- New -z option to precompute randomized sequence
- New -W ID[,ID] option to forge VLAN and QinQ VLAN
- zbalance_ipc:
- New -x option to filter by VLAN ID
- Add ability to set BPF to egress queues
- Add ability to refresh BPF filters at runtime
- New -G : option to forward GTP-C traffic to a specific queue
- New zcount -f option to set BPF filters
- New pfcount -F option (do not strip FCS)
- New zcount/zcount_ipc -t option to read the packet payload
- New pcount -e option to set the capture direction
- Add VLAN to the flows dumped by ftflow
- Fix transmission of small packets (less than 60 bytes)
- Fix CPU affinity in ZC sample applications
Misc
- Handle failures in service restart during package updates
- Add linux headers dependency to the pfring-dkms package
- Add actual version/revision to pfring-drivers-zc-dkms packages
- Fix installed .so library and links
- Fix ZC DAQ compilation and API update
- Fix service scripts to avoid command injections