#INTEL I210 DRIVER DRIVER#
The E1000E driver doesn’t have any bells or whistles to flip on or off, but they could be supported. Verify with ethtool -T eth0.Ī quick glance over the Kconfig of Linux 4.10 shows that the igb driver has many more options like HWMON (if supported by hardware, doesn’t appear on my I211) and DCA. Linux PTP is supported by the I211 + igb driver for precision timestamping with IEEE 5188.Virtualization features like VMDq are not supported.The I219 only advertises ARP offloading support. CPU Offloading features supported by the I211 include TCP segmentation and various checksums.Direct Cache Access (DCA) is available on the I211.Receive Side Coalescing (RSC) not available on either.Low power features on the I219 claims to consume less then 1 mW with Ethernet cable disconnected (perfect for not using it).Jumbo Frames up to 9KB on I219 and up to 9.5kB on the I211.Interestingly, the I210 supports up to four RSS queues and may result in better performance at very high load. Receive Side Scaling (RSS) support on both up to two RSS queues per TX and RX (didn’t check if each driver supports them).The Intel datasheets for the I211 and I219 start to give us some real perspective though.įrom the datasheet the I211 seems to be much more featured (or at least is better documented and has a longer datasheet). Intel ARK comparison yields nothing of interest either. The I211 appears to be a dedicated discrete chip. The I219 ( 8086:15b8) is clearly the network interface MAC integrated into my Z270 PCH as it has the same PCI address as all the other PCH peripherals. Since I only need one the question was raised: Which should I use? I’m sure the hardware performance is comparable but what driver is less drama?Ī quick Google search for “igb vs e1000e” yielded no results other then a few others asking the same question with no answer.
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Subsystem: ASRock Incorporation Device Ġ7:00.0 Ethernet controller : Intel Corporation I211 Gigabit Network Connection (rev 03)
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00:1f.6 Ethernet controller : Intel Corporation Ethernet Connection (2) I219-V