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Thursday, September 17, 2009

Microsoft Windows 2000 TCP/IP Implementation Details

Appendix A: TCP/IP Configuration Parameters

The TCP/IP protocol suite implementation for Windows 2000 obtains all of its configuration data from the registry. This information is written to the registry by the Setup program. Some of this information is also supplied by the Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) client service, if it is enabled. This appendix defines all of the registry parameters used to configure the protocol driver, Tcpip.sys, which implements the standard TCP/IP network protocols.

The implementation of the protocol suite should perform properly and efficiently in most environments using only the configuration information gathered by Setup and DHCP. Optimal default values for all other configurable aspects of the protocols for most cases have been encoded into the drivers. Some customer installations may require changes to certain default values. To handle these cases, optional registry parameters can be created to modify the default behavior of some parts of the protocol drivers.

Note: The Windows TCP/IP implementation is largely self-tuning. Adjusting registry parameters may adversely affect system performance.

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http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb726981.aspx#EDAA

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