4. Intel Support

Accelerated packet capture and trasmission for Intel adapters is available on PF_RING ZC by means of specialised drivers as described in the PF_RING ZC section. Please also read Installing from packages for installation and configuration instructions.

4.1. Supported Intel NICs Comparison

This table below helps you understanding what features are delivered by each Intel driver family and chipset model.

e1000e

igb

ixgbe

ixgbevf

i40e

iavf

fm10k

ice

Status

Supported

Supported

Supported

Supported

Supported

Supported

Deprecated

Supported

Max Port Speed (Gbit)

1

1

10

10

40

40

100

100

Symmetric RSS

No RSS

Yes

Yes

Yes

Dep on Fw

Dep on Fw

Yes

Yes

RX Hardware Timestamp

82580/i350

Yes

Read/Set Device Clock

Yes

TX Timestamp

Yes

Dual mode (Kernel and ZC)

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Note:

  • Symmetric RSS: on some adapters (e.g. i40e) this depends on the firmware version, a message is dmesg is printed to warn about this when no symmetric support is detected.

  • Dual mode: ZC drivers supporting this mode can run as standard kernel drivers when there is no ZC socket running for the specific interface.