On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 5:40 AM, James Rankin <[email protected]> wrote:
> On my terminal servers I have noticed that the DHCP Media Sense function has
> been disabled. IIRC this function is the one that pops up the "network cable
> unplugged" notification when an adapter is in a down state, and then it
> unbinds all the protocols from it as well. As my servers will pretty much
> drop all their connections if they lose network connectivity, am I getting
> any performance benefit from having this function disabled (it was set up
> prior to my arrival on this job)?

  I don't really know, but theorizing (i.e., talking out of my a**):
If it does unbind all protocols, a momentary network glitch or false
positive would cause everyone to loose their session connection.  By
not doing that, users would just have a momentary stall.  So I can see
why disabling it might be a good idea, on a Term Server.

-- Ben

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