Do I need to upgrade my network card driver?

[Lucas Rey]

Hello community, I just installed an intel network card into my proxmox server: X710-T4.
I updated card firmware to the latest one proovided by Intel website: v9.40, not it's time to check the driver, from the proxmox CLI I can see:

# modinfo i40e | grep ver
filename:       /lib/modules/6.5.13-3-pve/kernel/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e.ko
description:    Intel(R) Ethernet Connection XL710 Network Driver
srcversion:     5B8B0F296D2AC8CBED1EC29
vermagic:       6.5.13-3-pve SMP preempt mod_unload modversions

# ethtool -i eth7
driver: i40e
version: 6.5.13-3-pve
firmware-version: 9.40 0x8000ecb4 1.3429.0
expansion-rom-version:
bus-info: 0000:01:00.3
supports-statistics: yes
supports-test: yes
supports-eeprom-access: yes
supports-register-dump: yes
supports-priv-flags: yes

Intel support site reports version 29, and inside the packages I downloaded I can see:



I'm a little bit confused, do I need to update my card driver?
Thank you
Lucas

 

[Dunuin]

If it works fine and you don't run into any problems I personally would stick with the drivers Proxmox is shipping with PVE.
Otherwise you might add those drivers once and then forget to manually update them over the years.

 

[louie1961]

if it works, you get appropriate speed out of it, and you are not having problems with it, I wouldn't bother. I would simply keep your kernel updated, and use whatever driver it comes with. It could be that a new driver was not included in the kernel yet for a variety of reasons. If it works, I would trust whatever the kernel developers provide, personally.

 

[Lucas Rey]

Thank yout both for reply, I'm experiencing a low speed transfer (download), using pfSense as pppoe router. But from my test most probably I have to open a ticket to my isp. That's why I'm ugrading firmware, and check the driver to be absolutely sure there is no issue on my side, but for now, I'll stick with default driver. Thank you.