As has been said many times: This list rocks! I got zero replies from the nt admin list (and my post was nice). My favorite network list (net-troubleshooting@wildpackets.com) was taken out by a fire. They did have off-site backups, and are buying new servers and rebuilding. ---------------- Thanks to the following from this list (especially those checked): Sirisena, Navi <Navi.Sirisena@gs.com> -> Martin Hepworth <martinh@solid-state-logic.com> John Martinez <john@mtbiker.net> -> Ian Clements <ian@artisan.com> joe.fletcher@btconnect.com Mark Ryan <mryan@proquent.com> Kevin Metzger <kevin.metzger@ieee.org> *->> Larye Parkins <LParkins@niaid.nih.gov> *->> Brian Dunbar <Brian.Dunbar@plexus.com> -> Fogg, James <JFogg@vicinity.com> Peter Ondruska <petino@hotmail.com> Benjamin Ritcey <sunmanagers@ritcey.com> John Eisenschmidt <jweisen@eisenschmidt.org> ---------------- Here are a couple of good sources: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/treeview/default.asp?url=/TechNet/prodtechnol/winntas/maintain/featusability/ntopt1.asp http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/server/evaluation/performance/reports/perftune.asp http://hallwebtools.com/software_design/63.shtml http://www.microsoft.com/MSPress/books/3211.asp ---------------- Aside from the standard recommendations of monitoring the network and documenting the facts of the situation, there are actually a significant number of detailed changes that are recommended for tuning windows after it is installed. The basics include: removing excess bindings for network protocols. this could be choosing TCP/IP and eliminating NetBEUI and NetBIOS (and of course IPX). basically, a lot of NT overhead traffic is replicated over all available protocols. remove unnecessary services from NT installations. leave only services that are explicitly required for your network design -- particularly for workstation installations that are ghosted over many dozens of machines. clamp down on browser traffic by resetting the registry keys that cause a PC to keep a maintain a server list or compete to be the browsemaster. use only designated browsemasters. control roaming profiles. the references above also had a variety of other registry settings. of course, I was specifically looking for NT or Win2000 tuning information. suggestions like using fixed network speeds rather than autonegotiated at both ends are useful, but I already knew that and have been arguing that. Also, check netmasks, use mrtg (got it running), etc. Thanks to everyone. --------------- Chris Hoogendyk -- O__ ---- Network Specialist & Unix Systems Administrator c/ /'_ --- Library Information Systems & Technology Services (*) \(*) -- W.E.B. Du Bois Library ~~~~~~~~~~ - University of Massachusetts, Amherst <choogend@library.umass.edu> --------------- _______________________________________________ sunmanagers mailing list sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org http://www.sunmanagers.org/mailman/listinfo/sunmanagersReceived on Tue Sep 3 17:10:47 2002
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