Technology Guide for Intel® Ethernet Controller E810 Dynamic Device Personalization Package (DDP) for Telecommunications
Content Type: Product Information & Documentation | Article ID: 000098415 | Last Reviewed: 03/03/2025
The Intel® Ethernet 800 Series (800 Series) is the next generation of Intel® Ethernet Controllers and Network Adapters. The 800 Series is designed with an enhanced programmable pipeline, allowing deeper and more diverse protocol header processing. This on-chip capability is called Dynamic Device Personalization (DDP). In the 800 Series, a DDP profile is loaded dynamically on driver load per device.
A general-purpose DDP package is automatically installed with all supported 800 Series drivers on Windows*, ESX*, FreeBSD*, and Linux* operating systems, including those provided by the Data Plane Development Kit (DPDK). This general-purpose DDP package is known as the OS-default package.
This document describes an optional DDP package targeted towards the needs of telecommunication (Comms) customers. In addition to the protocols in the OS-default package, the Comms DDP package (v1.3.24.0) provides support for GTP, PPPoE, IPSEC, L2TPv3, PFCP, and MPLS protocols. The Comms DDP package is supported by DPDK 20.11 drivers and the 800 Series ice driver on Linux* operating systems. The Comms DDP Package can be loaded on all 800 Series devices, or different packages can be selected via serial number per device.