Supported Hardware
NICs
Features supported by the drivers can be checked in the networking drivers matrix.
ena (Elastic Network Adapter)
ark (Arkville Packet Conduit FX0/FX1)
bnxt (NetXtreme-C, NetXtreme-E, StrataGX)
thunderx (CN88XX) octeontx (CN83XX, CN82XX, CN81XX, CN80XX) liquidio (LiquidIO II CN23XX) bnx2x (QLogic 578xx) qede (QLogic FastLinQ QL4xxxx)
cxgbe (Terminator 5, Terminator 6)
enic (UCS Virtual Interface Card)
e1000 (82540, 82545, 82546) e1000e (82571, 82572, 82573, 82574, 82583, ICH8, ICH9, ICH10, PCH, PCH2, I217, I218, I219) igb (82575, 82576, 82580, I210, I211, I350, I354, DH89xx) ixgbe (82598, 82599, X520, X540, X550) i40e (X710, XL710, X722, XXV710) fm10k (FM10420) Note: The drivers e1000 and e1000e are also called em. The drivers em and igb are sometimes grouped in e1000 family.
mvpp2 (Marvell Packet Processor v2)
mlx4 (ConnectX-3, ConnectX-3 Pro) mlx5 (ConnectX-4, ConnectX-4 Lx, ConnectX-5, Bluefield)
szedata2 (NFB-, NPC-, NSF-*)
nfp (NFP-4xxx, NFP-6xxx)
dpaa (LS102x, LS1043, LS1046) dpaa2 (LS1048, LS108x, LS20xx, LX216x)
sfc_efx (SFN7xxx, SFN8xxx, XtremeScale X2)
avp (Wind River Accelerated Virtual Port) virtio-net (QEMU) vmxnet3 (VMware ESXi)
af_packet (Linux AF_PACKET socket) tap/tun (kernel L2/L3) pcap (file or kernel driver) ring (memory)