The operating systems of today has good support for auto configuration of TCP. Good performance can be acheived just by changing the TCP window size. All operating systems we tested had much too low TCP window size as default to utilize a gigabit etehernet card, even on fairly short distances. We have also found out that only very late releases of the operating systems have good TCP stacks and drivers for the network cards, so upgrading to a fairly rescent OS is vital.
Below is a short description of what we did on the different operating systems we tested. In the table are some values shown with dark grey background - those values are usually the default, and thus not nesseceary to change.
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Below is a short description of what we did on the different operating systems we tested. In the table are some values shown with dark grey background - those values are usually the default, and thus not nesseceary to change.
Read more: Swedish University Computer Network