Channel9 visits the Networking Stack Team
Our colleagues down the hall, TCP/IP dev lead Sanjay, architect Abolade and NDIS dev lead Ali (and cameo by Sandeep and Deepak) talk about the new networking stack in Windows Vista on Channel 9. Here's a bit of the contents:
End Users
Stack Auto-Tuning (less registry key tweaking needed)
Performance
Receive Side Scaling in NDIS - Scaling across processors better
Offloading Technology
New Congestion Control Algorithm in TCP (CCTP)IPSEC's deployment at Microsoft
Authenticated Firewall
Wireless Improvements (WPA2 and better plugin model)
Diagnostics Framework for Networking
QWave - Home Networking QoS
Developers
Lightweight Filter Driver Model
New and Improved driver framework for Network Cards
Winsock Kernel and TLNPI
TCP/IP Statistics
Tracing
IPv6
Also note that there is a new Microsoft Web Forum for Networking.
-- Ari Pernick (arip)