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Old 03-21-2005, 04:09 AM   #1
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Windows Network capabilities Versus Linux/unix


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Any network engineer who uses PPPoE (Point-to-Point Protocol over Ethernet) with ADSL will tell you that the MTU (a setting that limits packet size) should be set to 1492 or less. In XP it's set by default to 1500, which may lead to problems with the routers of many DSL ISP's. Microsoft is aware of the problem, but XP nevertheless persists in setting up PPPoE with an MTU of 1500. There is a registry hack for PPPoE users, but there is no patch, and XP has no GUI-based option which enables the user to change the MTU conveniently. (This problem is rather typical for XP. Previous versions of Windows needed third party code to support such features. This was inconvenient, but at least there was a chance to obtain code written by developers who knew what they were doing. In Windows XP Microsoft insisted on doing the job themselves, and botched it.)
On top of all this, readers of this paper report that according to John Dvorak in PC Magazine, the Windows kernel maxes out at 483 Mbps. He remarks that as many businesses are upgrading to 1 Gigabit Ethernet, Windows (including XP) just can't keep up.
Now go read what Microsoft writes about Windows 2000 and XP being the ideal platform for Internet applications...

Is this true or not?
it's a little export of this article/rant
http://www.euronet.nl/users/frankvw/...IhateMS_2.html
 
Old 03-21-2005, 09:36 PM   #2
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There are many assertions in the quoted text. Which of them are you asking about?

But this doesn't appear to be about Linux. Should we be discussing this here?
 
Old 03-22-2005, 03:58 PM   #3
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the capabilities of the Network interface of windows.

That the kernel doesnot support using the bandwidth of gigabit ethernet.

that Windows doesnot support TCP/IP but instead packages Netbeui inside a TCP/IP header.
 
  


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