What Intel NIC driver (i40e, ixgbe, iavf, ice, etc) is in RHEL 8.4 and later?

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Issue

  • What Intel NIC driver (i40e, ixgbe, iavf, ice, etc) is in RHEL 8.4 and later?
  • Intel network card drivers no longer have a version number, instead they show the kernel version from uname -r.
  • How can I compare the RHEL driver and a third-party driver such as Intel SourceForge or from the hardware vendor?

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 (kernel-4.18.0-305.el8) and later
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9
  • Intel network interface card with drivers:
    • e100, e1000, e1000e, igb, igbvf, igc, ixgb, ixgbe, i40e, ice, iavf, fm10k

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