[OpenAFS] Windows client network behaviour

Gary Buhrmaster gary.buhrmaster@gmail.com
Wed, 21 Sep 2011 16:20:37 +0000


On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 14:42, Anders Magnusson <ragge@ltu.se> wrote:
...
> No, state-of-the-art HP workstation. =A0Note that this is more-or-less th=
e
> behaviour
> of all our Win7 machines with the IFS client, all of them are really new
> hardware.

This is a WAG, but high end workstations sometimes have
network cards that enable (by default) protocol offloading
(usually called TOE) to the network card.  You may want
to try to disable the offload functions if enabled (how to do
that is card/driver dependent) to see if the results change.