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Windows Server 2008: The Definitive Guide
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Windows Server 2008: The Definitive Guide

by Jonathan Hassell
March 2008
Beginner to intermediate content levelBeginner to intermediate
494 pages
13h 4m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Networking Improvements

The Windows Server 2008 team has made a special effort at improving network performance and efficiency. For the first time, there is a dual-IP layer architecture for native IPv4 and IPv6 support together, simultaneously. (If you've ever configured IPv4 and IPv6 on a Windows Server 2003 machine, you'll know what a pain it is to get them to interoperate without falling all over each other.) Communications security is enhanced through better IPsec integration throughout the various pieces of the TCP/IP stack. Hardware is used more efficiently and robustly to speed up performance of network transmissions, intelligent tuning and optimization algorithms run regularly to ensure efficient communication, and APIs to the network stack are more directly exposed, making it easier for developers to interact with the stack. Let's take a look at some of the improvements in what the team is calling Next Generation Networking.

TCP/IP Stack Enhancements

As I alluded to earlier, many changes in Windows Server 2008 were made to the TCP/IP stack itself. One such improvement is the auto-tuning TCP window size: Windows Server 2008 can automatically tune the size of the receive window by each individual connection, increasing the efficiency of large data transfers between machines on the same network. Microsoft quotes the following example: " ... on a 10 Gigabit Ethernet network, packet size can be negotiated up to 6 Megabytes in size."

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