Hive: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
Key: System\CurrentControlSet\Services\Tcpip\Parameters
Name: MaxForwardBufferMemory
Type: REG_DWORD
Value: 74240
Name: MaxNumForwardPackets
Type: REG_DWORD
Value: 50
See KB Q221926 for updated information.
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- Registry Tip : TCP Forwarding Buffer Patch
- Network
- Registry Tips
- Windows NT
- Windows Server 2008/2003/2000/XP/NT Administrator Knowledge Base
- Section(s): Network
- Published on Apr 20, 2004.
- Last Modified on Apr 20, 2004.
- Last Modified by Wayne Maples.
- Rating: Not Rated
The TCP forwarding buffer used to route packets between interfaces can consume all available kernel memory in NT 4 SP4.
The forwarding buffer used to route packets between interfaces can consume all
available kernel memory in NT 4 SP4. The default is 0xFFFFFFFF. Microsoft
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