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   From: rick.jones2@hp.com   
      
   chris  wrote:   
   > On Dec 14, 7:12?pm, Rick Jones  wrote:   
   > > Not sure how much your setup would like TSO/LSO - Transport   
   > > Segmentation Offload/Large Send Offload - those can produce   
   > > "bursts" of perhaps as much as 64KB at a time... not sure that   
   > > Windows 2003 has support for that or not though - even if the   
   > > NIC(s) involved do   
      
   > The NICs probably do.  The server is a newish HP DL-mumblemumble.   
   > These tend to come with integrated broadcom NICs that support TSO.   
      
   Indeed.  It is quite difficult (not sure it is even possible) to find   
   a "server class" (whatever that really means :) NIC these days that   
   does not offer CKO and TSO.   
      
   > Windows support for the feature remains a mystery.   
      
   > Incidentally, the server guys tell me that the specific registry key   
   > cited by a previously linked microsoft article does not exist.  CTCP   
   > may be enabled here (and it sounds like it is), but not by that   
   > specific key.   
      
   I've not read/learned much about MS CTCP, but what little I've seen   
   suggests it will behave "differently" wrt congestion control and   
   avoidance.   
      
   rick jones   
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