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Server and client network optimization
Optimizing the NIC/LAN card gives you better throughput for clients to read from the server. The following steps are the same for both client and server and need to be performed once.
- Open Network and Sharing Center from the “Control Panel” and click on the “Change adapter settings” (Figure 1).
Figure 1
- Right click on the network adapter and click on the “Properties” option (Figure 2).
Figure 2
- On the "Ethernet Properties" window, uncheck every option except the following options and then click the “OK” button (Figure 3).
- Clients for Microsoft Networks
- File and Printer Sharing for Microsoft Networks
- Internet Protocol Version 4 (TCP/IPv4)
Figure 3
- Now, click the “Properties” button again and then click the “Configure” button (Figure 4)
Figure 4
- Click on the "Advanced" tab and then set the following options to “Disabled” (Figure 5) and (Figure 6).
- Advanced EEE
- ARP Offload
- Energy-Efficient Ethernet
- Flow Control
- Gigabit Lite
- Green Ethernet
- Interrupt Moderation
- IPv4 Checksum Offload
- Large Send Offload v2 (IPv4)
- Large Send Offload v2 (IPv6)
- NS Offload
- Power Saving Mode
- Receive Side Scaling
- TCP Checksum Offload (IPv4)
- UDP Checksum Offload (IPv6)
- TCP Checksum Offload (IPv4)
- UDP Checksum Offload (IPv6)
Figure 5
Figure 6
Notes:
- Some options may or may not be available depending on your NIC/Network adapter. However, general options to disable are as above.
- If you have Intel NIC then do not disable the “Enable PME” option. If you disable it then the client will not be able to wake from LAN.
- In case you forgot to optimize the NIC before uploading the image then you can use this batch file to optimize the NIC in super client mode.