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jhunter11
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Command to check vmnic driver

I was on with support a couple of weeks ago troubleshooting an issue and we figured out that part of the problem may be due to out of date vmnic drivers.  I already have updated two hosts and I have the update bundle on one of the datastores and I have the commands to install the update, but I don't remember the command to check the driver info.  I "think" it was an ethtool command, but I am not 100% sure.  Can somebody please help me remember the command?

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RvdNieuwendijk
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The command to check your nic drivers is:

ethtool -i vmnic0


Regards, Robert

Message was edited by: RvdNieuwendijk Changed a typo.

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Dave_Mishchenko
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You can use vmkload_mod -s  e1000e to query info about the driver and esxupdate to check about updates on the host.

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RvdNieuwendijk
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The command to check your nic drivers is:

ethtool -i vmnic0


Regards, Robert

Message was edited by: RvdNieuwendijk Changed a typo.

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jhunter11
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This is excatly what I was looking for!  I just didn't have the syntax right.  Thanks!

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