August 2000
Intermediate to advanced
800 pages
21h 5m
English
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TCP/IP Improvements
Windows 2000's TCP/IP support has been enhanced to provide improved performance over various link speeds such as those defined in RFC 1323. Throughput for any link depends on a number of variables, but the most important factors are
Link speed
Propagation delay
Window size
Link reliability
Network congestion
Performance improvements can be summarized in several features.
Large Window Support
Large window support improves performance when large amounts of data remain unacknowledged over a long period of time. The TCP receive window size is the amount of receive data (in bytes) that can be buffered at one time on a connection. The sending host can send only that amount of data before waiting for an acknowledgment and window update ...