Arduino Ethernet Shield Library question

I'm of course talking about the Ethernet library included with Arduino once it's installed!

You won't be using the "old" Ethernet library. You will be using the "new" Ethernet2 library.

It's better to not think of them in terms of "old" or "new". The different libraries are for different hardware with different capabilities.

The user-facing functions, like connect(), available(), etc. haven't changed.