PF_RING 8.2 Release

PF_RING Library

• New new pfring_get_caplen API
• New pfring_get_link_type API
• Add src_ip_mask and dst_ip_mask to generic_flow_rule
• Add priority to hw_filtering_rule
• Add module version to device info returned by pfring_findalldevs
• Refactor device name parsing
• Use sockaddr_ll in bind (to supports interface names longer than 14 chars)

ZC Library

• New Mellanox support for ConnectX 4/5/6 adapters, including hardware offloads for timestamp, filtering, RSS
• Fix pfring_zc_numa_get_cpu_node

FT Library

• Add native support for flow export over ZMQ

PF_RING Kernel Module

• Add support for VXLAN
• Add support for both sockaddr and sockaddr_ll in bind
• Refactor kernel locking
• Discard VLAN in hash cluster_per_flow_ip_with_dup_tuple calculation
• Detect when a process owning a PF_RING socket changes the PID (e.g. fork)
• Export process PID to userspace
• Fix compilation on latest kernels for Rocky Linux and RH 8.5, Debian 9, 10, 11, Ubuntu 18, 20, 22
• Fix net namespace handling
• Fix crash when renaming /proc entries

PF_RING Capture Modules

Fix drop statistics on Napatech with HBA set

ZC Drivers

• New igb-zc driver v.5.10.2
• New i40e-zc driver v.2.17.4
• New ice-zc driver v.1.8.8

nBPF

• Fix double free

Examples

• New sample application pfsend_multichannel to send traffic using RSS
• New zdelay application to forward traffic between interfaces, adding a configurable delay
• pfcount_multichannel: remove limit on number of threads
• zbalance_ipc: improve hashing modes (e.g. add -Y to control eth type)
• pfcount:
  • Add -0 to steer all traffic to RSS queueu 0
  • Add -P to set rule priority
• ftflow_dpdk:
  • Set RSS mode/hf (required on some adapters e.g. Mellanox)
  • Use time from hardware timestamp when available

Misc

• Add support for Ubuntu 22
• Remove nBroker support (fm10k adapters are EOL)