Windows Server 2008 Enhances Networking - Next Generation TCP/IP stack
For the benefit of those stuck in a cave in Patagonia since the early 1980s, TCP/IP is the de facto standard network protocol stack for most server and workstation computers you’ll encounter, but it’s by no means the only one. It expands to Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol and serves as the foundation for network traffic shuttled across the Internet. It’s become a nearly universal means for networked communications of all kinds.
The core network stack framework is improved and enhanced to increase existing functionality, complement it with supplementary performance enhancing functionality, and further expand that framework through additional features and components. The following are material that’s both directly and indirectly related to advances in the Next Generation TCP/IP network protocol stack in Windows Server 2008.
Receive window auto-tuning
In TCP, a receive window size defines the amount of data that a TCP...
Written by magakos on August 21st, 2008 with no comments.
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