WIndows is not following TcpAckFrequency settings

This is a wierd one. I have set the tcpackfrequency to 2 and windows does not seem to honor it no matter what I do. I would need your help with this. My current template is Internet and congestion provider set to CTCP. But I still see windows cumulatively Acking the data. Sometimes upto 20 … Read more

TCPDUMP – TCP FLAGS

Why PUSH packets have always ACK flag set? Why not just PUSH? After 3 way handshake, the very first packet sent by the client should have only PUSH. Where does this ACK comes from? 19:14:58.013699 IP 10.201.98.71.59454 > 10.201.208.15.ssh: Flags [S], seq 1794644890, win 29200, options [mss 1460,sackOK,TS val 18876032 ecr 0,nop,wscale 7], length 0 … Read more

Linux control packet size for specific IP address

I would like to get Linux tool/script to control packet size of specific IP or MAC. For example if IP reach 10 MB then DROP packages with IP tables. I have idea how to DROP, but I don’t have idea how to control packet size for specific multiple IP address Answer You want to read … Read more

Why Windows Server network stack is so slow compared to Red Hat Linux? [closed]

Closed. This question is off-topic. It is not currently accepting answers. Want to improve this question? Update the question so it’s on-topic for Server Fault. Closed 1 year ago. Improve this question According to the following paper… COMPARING NETWORK PERFORMANCE: RED HAT ENTERPRISE LINUX 6 VS. MICROSOFT WINDOWS SERVER 2012 Src: http://www.principledtechnologies.com/Red%20Hat/RHEL6_network_0613.pdf … Windows Server … Read more

localhost loopback tcp connection in Windows: increase the bottleneck of 65535 bytes per segment

The scenario that I have is as such: I have a loopback TCP session and I want to improve its performance. I have my socket-like objects (System.Net.Sockets in .NET Framework, to be specific) sending messages of up to about 9MB each flowing in both directions of the TCP connection. I have observed typical delays of … Read more

How do routers combine WAN and LAN traffic (packet data over wifi and ethernet)? [closed]

Closed. This question is off-topic. It is not currently accepting answers. Want to improve this question? Update the question so it’s on-topic for Server Fault. Closed 8 years ago. Improve this question In my office, we have a leased line connection which is shared by some 20 users over wi-fi. This causes congestion on the … Read more

TCP ports duplication [closed]

Closed. This question is off-topic. It is not currently accepting answers. Want to improve this question? Update the question so it’s on-topic for Server Fault. Closed 7 years ago. Improve this question I need to communicate server1 to server2. Server1 should have to fetch some records from Server2 when we execute program.exe will make server1 … Read more

What are TCP Port 5445 and UDP Port 3935 used for on Windows Server 2016? [closed]

Closed. This question is off-topic. It is not currently accepting answers. Want to improve this question? Update the question so it’s on-topic for Server Fault. Closed 3 years ago. Improve this question I’m facing a dilemma, I built 2 physical servers and for some reason for all the IP addresses assigned to that server it’s … Read more

most efficient way to block an ip address from connecting to a ubuntu 18.04 server [closed]

Closed. This question is off-topic. It is not currently accepting answers. Want to improve this question? Update the question so it’s on-topic for Server Fault. Closed 2 years ago. Improve this question Since i do not have access to other layers, i would like to know the most efficient way to block an ip address … Read more