AWS Enhanced Networking requires ixgbevf driver version 2.14
Issue
- Amazon AWS documentation Enabling Enhanced Networking with the Intel 82599 VF Interface on Linux Instances in a VPC requires
ixgbevf
driver module version2.14
or later - RHEL 6.8 with
kernel-2.6.32-642.el6
series has a driver based on2.12
- RHEL 7.2 with
kernel-3.10.0-327.el7
series has a driver based on2.12
- AWS instance has
eth: error fetching interface information: Device not found"
in boot logs
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
- Amazon AWS Intel 82599 Enhanced Networking requiring
ixgbevf
driver
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