March 2004
Intermediate to advanced
560 pages
14h 38m
English
The three ways of tuning network bottlenecks include hardware solutions, configuration solutions, and application solutions.
There are a variety of hardware solutions, all of which can be thought of as “spending money” solutions. Here are a few common approaches:
Add more network adapters and rebalance the network load, say with Autoport Aggregation.
Use faster network adapters (e.g., Gigabit Ethernet versus Fast Ethernet).
Use switches instead of hubs.
Use higher-performing switches.
Use network adapters with checksum offloading to perform the checksum operation in hardware versus software.
Use Auto Port Aggregation (APA) software to load balance multiple NICs onto a single logical network. ...
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