Intel NIC Family Version 18.5.0 Linux Base Drivers - Source Code Install

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Intel NIC source code drivers for Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Novell SLES operating systems. This release provides continued code optimization to improve performance.
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Fixes & Enhancements

Fixes
- Resolved network connection failure related to teaming of VF when Windows Server 2016 is host OS, SLES as guest OS, SR-IOV is enabled and value of parameter 'IovQueuePairsRequested' is set to greater than 1.
- Fixed issue with Intel(R) X710 devices causing low throughput when Application Target Routing (ATR) is enabled and flow directory filtering is enabled with flow type set to TCP4.
- Fixed issue with Intel(R) X710 driver in which the value of 'tx_timeout' counter is incorrect.
- Fixed issue in which SR-IOV for VF was not enabled after disabling and re-enabling of SR-IOV for VF on RHEL when 'Linux Integrated Servers (LIS)' with Hyper-V is installed.
- Fixed issue with the 10GB devices in which the adapters that supports WoL feature did not wake up with IPv6 magic packet.
- The driver now correctly updates the link speed when the SFP+ module is swapped with another SFP+ module of different speed.
- Resolved issue with the 10GB devices in which unloading driver can hang endlessly if accelerated MACVLANs are present.
- Fixed issue with default value of 'l2-fwd-offload' for SLES 12 OS being set to enabled when it should have been set to disabled.

Enhancements
- The Intel(R) X710 UDP packet processing is optimized to prevent discards when flow control is enabled.
- The Intel(R) X710 driver now supports new API and can now be compiled with Linux Kernel 4.15.1.
- The i40evf driver now supports SR-IOV on Linux as guest OS on Windows Hyper-V as host OS.
- The driver now supports IPv6 packets with extended headers with ATR (Application Targeted Routing) checks
- The Intel(R) X710 devices now support Linux PF/VF for basic transmit/receive of QinQ packets: 802.1Q (ethertype 0x8100) and 802.1ad (ethertype 0x88A8).
- Added support for Intel(R) Ethernet 25G 2P XXV710 Mezz
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Version

18.5.0, A00

Release date

11 Jun 2018

Download Type

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Category

Network, Ethernet & Wireless

Importance

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Red Hat® Enterprise Linux 6
SUSE Linux ES 12
Intel(R) 10GbE 4P X710-t Adapter
Intel(R) Ethernet 10G 2P X520 Adapter
Intel(R) Ethernet 10G 2P X520-k bNDC
Intel(R) Ethernet 10G 2P X540-t Adapter
Intel(R) Ethernet 10G 2P X550-t Adapter
Intel(R) Ethernet 10G 2P X710-k bNDC
Intel(R) Ethernet 10G 4P X520/I350 rNDC
Intel(R) Ethernet 10G 4P X550 rNDC
Intel(R) Ethernet 10G 4P X710 SFP+ rNDC
Intel(R) Ethernet 10G 4P X710-k bNDC
Intel(R) Ethernet 10G 4P X710/I350 rNDC
Intel(R) Ethernet 10G X520 LOM
Intel(R) Ethernet 25G 2P XXV710 Adapter
Intel(R) Ethernet 25G 2P XXV710 Mezz
Intel(R) Ethernet 40G 2P XL710 QSFP+ rNDC
Intel(R) Ethernet Connection I354 1.0 GbE Backplane
Intel(R) Ethernet Converged Network Adapter X710 - Dual Port
Intel(R) Ethernet Converged Network Adapter X710 - Quad Port
Intel(R) Ethernet Converged Network Adapter XL710-Q2
Intel(R) Ethernet OCP Mezzanine
Intel(R) Ethernet X520 10GbE Dual Port KX4-KR Mezz
Intel(R) Gigabit 2P I350 LOM
Intel(R) Gigabit 2P I350-t Adapter
Intel(R) Gigabit 2P I350-t LOM - 06E2
Intel(R) Gigabit 2P I350-t LOM on C4130
Intel(R) Gigabit 2P I350-t LOM on T620
Intel(R) Gigabit 2P I350-t LOM on T630
Intel(R) Gigabit 4P I350 bNDC
Intel(R) Gigabit 4P I350-t Adapter
Intel(R) Gigabit 4P I350-t Mezz
Intel(R) Gigabit 4P I350-t rNDC
Intel(R) Gigabit 4P X540/I350 rNDC
Intel(R) Gigabit 4P X550/I350 rNDC
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