Which Intel® Ethernet Network Adapters Support Intel® Ethernet Flow Director

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03/26/2021

Intel® Ethernet Flow Director (Intel® Ethernet FD) supports advanced filters that direct received packets to different queues, and it enables tight control on flow in the platform. It matches flows and CPU cores where the processing application is running for flow affinity, and it supports multiple parameters for flexible flow classification and load balancing.

Intel® Ethernet FD is supported on devices that use the Linux* ixgbe driver, including the following:

  • Intel® Ethernet Converged Network Adapter X520 Series
  • Intel® Ethernet Converged Network Adapter X540 Series
  • Intel® Ethernet Converged Network Adapter X550 Series
  • Intel® Ethernet Controller 10 Gigabit 82599 family

It's also supported on devices that use the Linux i40e driver:

  • Intel® Ethernet Converged Network Adapter XL710 Series
  • Intel® Ethernet Converged Network Adapter X710 Series
  • Intel® Ethernet Network Adapter XXV710 Series
  • Intel® Ethernet Network Adapter X722 Series

And the devices that use the ice driver:

  • Intel® Ethernet Network Adapter E810-CQDA1
  • Intel® Ethernet Network Adapter E810-CQDA2
  • Intel® Ethernet Network Adapter E810-XXVDA2
  • Intel® Ethernet Network Adapter E810-XXVDA4
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