Increasing Performance on Enterprise Servers

If you deploy four ITI-8241C-S Four-Port FastEthernet adapters in an Enterprise Server you may experience slow performance and response times during peak periods of high network traffic. This poor performance is usually caused by applications that use data buffer and socket buffer sizes greater than 8Kbytes.

Improved performance can be achieved by adjusting the application’s data buffer size to be less than or equal to 8Kbytes.

IP Forwarding Routing Protocols

The Solaris operating system will by default configure systems with more than one network interface to be an IP forwarding router. Installing an ITI- 8241C-S in a system will make this occur.

An Application Server which might be running a Database or NFS file services is typically “multihomed” which means that that they contain more than one network interface but do not run IP protocols or forward IP packets.

If IP forwarding and routing protocols on multihomed application servers is not disabled the servers may experience poor performance.

For more information, refer to the TCP/IP and Data Communications Administration Guide shipped with the Solaris documentation.

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