Quick Installation Guide
the PC hardware, other devices on the PCI bus, and the applications being run. Considering all the variables involved, it is recommended to experiment with the Packet Propulsion threshold to find the setting that maximizes the performance of the Cheetah Gigabit Adapter in your system.
Jumbo Frame Support
The Cheetah Gigabit Adapter can be configured to use Jumbo Frames. This increases the maximum Ethernet frame size from 1514 bytes up to 9014 bytes. Using Jumbo Frames greatly reduces the packet processing overhead and can boost throughput by up to 300% for bulk data transfers.
Note that to use Jumbo Frames, both communicating computers must have network cards that support this feature. Also at full duplex, all switches in the network between the two end computers must be able to accept the extended frame size. With
VLAN Properties
Select the “VLAN Properties” tab in the utility window to configure the adapter’s VLAN options and to edit the
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