Aug 30, 2024 37 min

Windows vs Linux Kernel

from The Backend Engineering Show with Hussein Nasser Hosted by Hussein Nasser

Fundamentals of Operating Systems Course https://os.husseinnasser.com Why Windows Kernel connects slower than Linux I explore the behavior of TCP/IP stack in Windows kernel when it receives a RST from the backend server especially when the host is available but the port we are trying to connect to is not. This behavior is exacerbated by having both IPv6 and IPv4 and if the happy eye ball protocol is in place where IPv6 is favorable. 0:00 Intro 0:30 Fundamentals TCP/IP 3:00 Unreachable Port Behavior 6:00 Client Kernel Behavior (Linux vs Windows) 11:40 Slow TCP Connect on Windows 15:00 localhost, IPv6 and IPv4 20:00 Happy Eyeballs 28:00 Registry keys to change the behavior 31:00 Port Unreachable vs Host Unreachable https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2024/08/14/slow-tcp-connect-on-windows/

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