Intel® Ethernet Adapters and Devices User Guide

ID Date Version Classification
705831 07/10/2026 Public
Document Table of Contents
Document Table of Contents
Welcome to Intel® Ethernet Adapters and Devices User Guide! Overview Installation Device Features Tools & Apps Troubleshooting Specifications Customer Support Notices and Disclaimers
Welcome to Intel® Ethernet Adapters and Devices User Guide!
Overview
Overview Supported Operating Systems Supported Hardware Related Documentation Discontinued Support
Supported Operating Systems
Supported Hardware
Related Documentation
Discontinued Support
Installation
Installation Hardware Compatibility Install the Adapter Connect Network Cables Install Drivers and Software
Hardware Compatibility
Install the Adapter
Connect Network Cables
Install Drivers and Software
Install Drivers and Software Install Linux Drivers Install FreeBSD Drivers Install VMware Drivers Install Windows Drivers
Install Linux Drivers
Install FreeBSD Drivers
Install VMware Drivers
Install Windows Drivers
Device Features
Device Features Adapter Teaming Adaptive Inter-Frame Spacing Data Center Bridging (DCB) Direct Memory Access (DMA) Coalescing Dynamic Device Personalization (DDP) Firmware Firmware Link Layer Discovery Protocol (FW-LLDP) Flow Control Forward Error Correction (FEC) Mode Gigabit PHY Mode Intel® Ethernet Flow Director Interrupt Moderation Rate Jumbo Frames Link State on Interface Down Locally Administered Address Log Link State Event Low Latency Interrupts Malicious Driver Detection (MDD) for VFs Max Number of RSS Queues Per Vport Offloads Performance Options Power Options Priority and VLAN Tagging Quality of Service Receive Buffers Receive Side Scaling Remote Boot Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA) Accessing Remote NVM Express* Drives Using RDMA Setting Speed and Duplex Thermal Monitoring Timestamps Transmit Buffers UEFI Network Device Drivers VF Loopback Pacing Virtualization Support Virtual LANs (VLANs) Wait for Link
Adapter Teaming
Adapter Teaming Teaming Modes
Teaming Modes
Adaptive Inter-Frame Spacing
Data Center Bridging (DCB)
Direct Memory Access (DMA) Coalescing
Dynamic Device Personalization (DDP)
Firmware
Firmware Firmware Security Firmware Rollback Mode Firmware Recovery Mode Using Devlink to Update a Device’s NVM Firmware Logging Debug Dump
Firmware Security
Firmware Rollback Mode
Firmware Recovery Mode
Using Devlink to Update a Device’s NVM
Firmware Logging
Debug Dump
Firmware Link Layer Discovery Protocol (FW-LLDP)
Flow Control
Forward Error Correction (FEC) Mode
Gigabit PHY Mode
Intel® Ethernet Flow Director
Interrupt Moderation Rate
Jumbo Frames
Link State on Interface Down
Locally Administered Address
Log Link State Event
Low Latency Interrupts
Malicious Driver Detection (MDD) for VFs
Max Number of RSS Queues Per Vport
Offloads
Offloads IPv4 Checksum Offload Large Send Offload (IPv4 and IPv6) NVGRE Encapsulated Task Offload QoS Offload TCP Checksum Offload (IPv4 and IPv6) UDP Checksum Offload (IPv4 and IPv6) UDP Segmentation Offload (IPv4 and IPv6) VXLAN Encapsulated Task Offload
IPv4 Checksum Offload
Large Send Offload (IPv4 and IPv6)
NVGRE Encapsulated Task Offload
QoS Offload
TCP Checksum Offload (IPv4 and IPv6)
UDP Checksum Offload (IPv4 and IPv6)
UDP Segmentation Offload (IPv4 and IPv6)
VXLAN Encapsulated Task Offload
Performance Options
Performance Options Optimizing Performance Tuning Performance with SR-IOV Transmit Balancing Performance Profile
Optimizing Performance
Tuning Performance with SR-IOV
Transmit Balancing
Performance Profile
Power Options
Power Options Wake on LAN (WoL) Options Other Power Options
Wake on LAN (WoL) Options
Other Power Options
Priority and VLAN Tagging
Quality of Service
Receive Buffers
Receive Side Scaling
Remote Boot
Remote Boot Flash Images Intel® Boot Agent
Flash Images
Intel® Boot Agent
Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA)
Accessing Remote NVM Express* Drives Using RDMA
Setting Speed and Duplex
Thermal Monitoring
Timestamps
Timestamps PTP Hardware Timestamp Software Timestamp
PTP Hardware Timestamp
Software Timestamp
Transmit Buffers
UEFI Network Device Drivers
VF Loopback Pacing
Virtualization Support
Virtualization Support Single Root I/O Virtualization (SR-IOV) Virtual Machine Queue Offloading Using Intel Network Adapters in a Microsoft* Hyper-V* Environment
Single Root I/O Virtualization (SR-IOV)
Virtual Machine Queue Offloading
Using Intel Network Adapters in a Microsoft* Hyper-V* Environment
Virtual LANs (VLANs)
Wait for Link
Tools & Apps
Tools & Apps Installing and Uninstalling Intel® Network Connection Tools Intel® Ethernet Flash Firmware Utility Intel® Dynamic Device Personalization Tool Ethernet Port Configuration Tool (EPCT) Intel® Ethernet NVM Update Tool NVM Update Package About Ethernet Cmdlets for Intel® Ethernet
Installing and Uninstalling Intel® Network Connection Tools
Intel® Ethernet Flash Firmware Utility
Intel® Dynamic Device Personalization Tool
Ethernet Port Configuration Tool (EPCT)
Intel® Ethernet NVM Update Tool
NVM Update Package
About Ethernet Cmdlets for Intel® Ethernet
About Ethernet Cmdlets for Intel® Ethernet Compatibility Notes for Ethernet Cmdlets for Intel® Ethernet Installing Ethernet Cmdlets for Intel® Ethernet Configuring Features with Windows PowerShell* Diagnostics in Ethernet Cmdlets for Intel® Ethernet Transitioning from Intel® PROSet to Ethernet Cmdlets for Intel® Ethernet
Compatibility Notes for Ethernet Cmdlets for Intel® Ethernet
Installing Ethernet Cmdlets for Intel® Ethernet
Configuring Features with Windows PowerShell*
Diagnostics in Ethernet Cmdlets for Intel® Ethernet
Transitioning from Intel® PROSet to Ethernet Cmdlets for Intel® Ethernet
Troubleshooting
Troubleshooting Common Problems and Solutions Multiple Adapters Health Status Messages Safe Mode PF Message Queue Overflow Possible Misconfiguration of the Ethernet Port Other Performance Issues Diagnostics
Common Problems and Solutions
Multiple Adapters
Health Status Messages
Safe Mode
PF Message Queue Overflow
Possible Misconfiguration of the Ethernet Port
Other Performance Issues
Diagnostics
Specifications
Customer Support
Notices and Disclaimers

Install VMware Drivers

ESXi drivers for Intel Ethernet devices are only available from VMware’s download site (Broadcom Support Portal): https://www.broadcom.com/support/download-search?q=ESXi.

Refer to the VMware’s download site for the latest drivers and installation information.

Install Windows Drivers