# Test whether enhanced networking is enabled
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You can test whether enhanced networking is enabled in your instances or your AMIs.

**Instance attribute**  
Check the value of the `enaSupport` instance attribute.

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#### [ AWS CLI ]

Use the [https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/reference/ec2/describe-instances.html](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/reference/ec2/describe-instances.html) command.

```
aws ec2 describe-instances \
    --instance-ids i-1234567890abcdef0 \
    --query "Reservations[].Instances[].EnaSupport"
```

If enhanced networking is enabled, the output is as follows.

```
[
    true
]
```

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#### [ PowerShell ]

Use the [https://docs.aws.amazon.com/powershell/latest/reference/items/Get-EC2Instance.html](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/powershell/latest/reference/items/Get-EC2Instance.html) cmdlet.

```
(Get-EC2Instance -InstanceId i-1234567890abcdef0).Instances.EnaSupport
```

If enhanced networking is enabled, the output is as follows.

```
True
```

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**Image attribute**  
Check the value of the `enaSupport` image attribute.

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#### [ AWS CLI ]

Use the [https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/reference/ec2/describe-images.html](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/reference/ec2/describe-images.html) command.

```
aws ec2 describe-images \
    --image-id ami-0abcdef1234567890 \
    --query "Images[].EnaSupport"
```

If enhanced networking is enabled, the output is as follows.

```
[
    true
]
```

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#### [ PowerShell ]

Use the [https://docs.aws.amazon.com/powershell/latest/reference/items/Get-EC2Image.html](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/powershell/latest/reference/items/Get-EC2Image.html) cmdlet.

```
(Get-EC2Image -ImageId ami-0abcdef1234567890).EnaSupport
```

If enhanced networking is enabled, the output is as follows.

```
True
```

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**Linux network interface driver**  
Use the following command to verify that the `ena` kernel driver is being used on a particular interface, substituting the interface name that you want to check. If you are using a single interface (default), this is `eth0`. If your Linux distribution supports predictable network names, this could be a name like `ens5`. For more information, expand the section for RHEL, SUSE, and CentOS in [Enable enhanced networking on your instance](enabling_enhanced_networking.md).

In the following example, the `ena` kernel driver is not loaded, because the listed driver is `vif`.

```
[ec2-user ~]$ ethtool -i eth0
driver: vif
version:
firmware-version:
bus-info: vif-0
supports-statistics: yes
supports-test: no
supports-eeprom-access: no
supports-register-dump: no
supports-priv-flags: no
```

In this example, the `ena` kernel driver is loaded and at the minimum recommended version. This instance has enhanced networking properly configured.

```
[ec2-user ~]$ ethtool -i eth0
driver: ena
version: 1.5.0g
firmware-version:
expansion-rom-version:
bus-info: 0000:00:05.0
supports-statistics: yes
supports-test: no
supports-eeprom-access: no
supports-register-dump: no
supports-priv-flags: no
```