Thursday, May 21, 2009

What is TCP Chimney Offload ?

It is a Networking Technology with which the load on CPU could be transferred to Network Adaptor during the Data Transfer.

In this TCP Chimney Offload enables the Windows networking subsystem to offload the TCP/IP connection to the network adaptor that includes Special Support for TCP/IP offload processing.

Reference : http://support.microsoft.com/kb/951037