Supported NICs

Features supported by the drivers can be checked in the networking drivers matrix.

Amazon

• ena (Elastic Network Adapter)

Atomic Rules

• ark (Arkville Packet Conduit FX0/FX1)

Broadcom

• bnxt (NetXtreme-C, NetXtreme-E, StrataGX)

Cavium

• thunderx (CN88XX, CN83XX, CN81XX, CN80XX)
• octeontx (CN83XX)
• liquidio (LiquidIO II CN23XX)
• bnx2x (QLogic 578xx)
• qede (QLogic FastLinQ QL4xxxx)

Chelsio

• cxgbe (Terminator 5, Terminator 6)

Cisco

• enic (UCS Virtual Interface Card)

Intel

• 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.

Marvell

• mvpp2 (Marvell Packet Processor v2)

Mellanox

• mlx4 (ConnectX-3, ConnectX-3 Pro)
• mlx5 (ConnectX-4, ConnectX-4 Lx, ConnectX-5, Bluefield)

Netcope

• szedata2 (NFB-*, NPC-*, NSF-*)

Netronome

• nfp (NFP-4xxx, NFP-6xxx)

NXP

• dpaa (LS102x, LS1043, LS1046)
• dpaa2 (LS1048, LS108x, LS20xx, LX216x)

Solarflare

• sfc_efx (SFN7xxx, SFN8xxx, XtremeScale X2)

Paravirtualization

• avp (Wind River Accelerated Virtual Port)
• virtio-net (QEMU)
• vmxnet3 (VMware ESXi)

Others

• af_packet (Linux AF_PACKET socket)
• tap (kernel L2)
• pcap (file or kernel driver)
• ring (memory)

Attic

• memnic (Qemu IVSHMEM)
• vmxnet3 usermap (VMware ESXi without uio)