Vista's 'Next Gen' TCP/IP Stack 259
boyko.at.netqos writes "Microsoft's new Vista TCP/IP stack might be beneficial to businesses looking to increase use of their IT infrastructure... if they did it right. Ted Romer at Network Performance Daily writes: '[Vista] now allows us to throttle outbound traffic at a client or server. For example, you can throttle the bandwidth of a particular subnet to a particular server, giving some departments more access to the servers that they need. You can even restrict outgoing bandwidth for certain peer-to-peer applications like bit torrent. This shaping can also be handy when applied to servers, allowing less bandwidth for certain users/departments, and more for others. While consumers may debate whether Vista is a worthwhile upgrade, I believe it to be important for enterprise customers who will best be able to put Vista's capabilities to their fullest potential. Of course, I'm getting it for DirectX 10 games, but that's just me.'"
Words to strike fear into any heart (Score:5, Funny)
games? (Score:5, Funny)
Just you? Wow, those will be some disappointing sales figures.
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This was one of the first commands I ran after Vista installed, and the difference is noticable.
You could be a little bit more specific about what "noticeable" means. Was it good or bad?
I recently tried to reduce the MTU size on a server 6000 miles away via the following command :
ifconfig eth0 mtu 1200
But I forgot to type the "mtu" part.
The difference was definitely noticeable. No, not in a good way.
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Guess which one.