NetCOPE platform version 1.2.0 - Release Notes

1   Introduction

The release notes for netcope-1.2.0 package contains a summary of the features of this package.

NetCOPE Platform version 1.2.0 packages are available at 'https://www.liberouter.org/repo/STABLE/x86_64/'. The process of installing NetCOPE package is described at 'http://www.liberouter.org/netcope/README.html' and 'http://www.liberouter.org/netcope/handbook.html' web pages, or in README.html file inside the package itself. Information about NetCOPE project can be found at 'http://www.liberouter.org/netcope/index.php'.

2   What's new

NetCOPE 1.2.0 is a release distribution. This is the package aiming to be general development platform. It targets the COMBOv2 family cards, namely ComboLXT, ComboI-1G4, ComboI-10G2, and ComboL-GPS.

We have improved our documentation, so basic information needed for successful package installation can be found in the README file. On the other side, more detailed information can be found in new NetCOPE User Handbook installed in /usr/share/netcope/doc/netcope-platform-handbook directory.

We have also created a brief man page about NetCOPE software tools. It is useful for developing with NetCOPE platform: man netcope-platform(7).

2.1   Hardware (firmware)

  • Support for COMBOv2 family cards with LX155T-2 FPGAs.
  • Support for precise timestamps generation in firmware, with the ComboI-GPS card.
  • Support for limited-precision timestamps generation in firmware, without the ComboI-GPS card.
  • Requires Xilinx ISE 11.4.

2.2   Software

  • Only 64-bit platform supported.
  • Package system using RPMs.
  • Kernel modules providing standard Linux eth network interfaces.