7–Windows Server 2003, 2008, and 2008 R2 Driver Configuration NIC Driver Properties and Configuration

Table 7-1. Advanced Properties Parameters (Continued)

Parameter

Description

 

 

Max Ethernet Frame Size

This parameter specifies the Ethernet frame size for

 

packet transmission and receive (it does not include

 

the MAC header).

 

Reg Key: MaxFrameSize

 

Default: 1500 (corresponds to 1514 bytes on the

 

wire plus 4 bytes of CRC)

 

Max: 9600

 

Min: 64

 

Step: 1

 

 

Max Jumbo Buffers

This parameter specifies the maximum number of

 

receive buffers per Jumbo frame.

 

Reg Key: RxJumboRingSize

 

Default: 2 (4096 buffers)

 

Values: 0 (1024), 1 (2048), 2 (4096), 3 (8192)

 

 

Max Offload Connections

This parameter specifies the maximum number of

 

offload connections.

 

Reg Key: MaxOffloadConnections

 

Default: 512

 

Max: 512

 

Min: 0

 

Step: 1

 

NOTE: This feature is not supported at the time of

 

publication.

 

 

Number of Receive Buffers

This parameter specifies the packet buffers used by

 

the driver for receive operations (DMA memory and

 

indicated to stack). Each buffer is 1536 bytes.

 

Registry Key: ReceiveBuffers

 

Default: 4 (16,384 entries)

 

Values (entries): 0 (1024), 1 (2048), 2 (4096),

 

3 (8192), 4 (16,384), 5 (32,768)

 

 

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