To increase its performance, the Microsoft TCP/IP transport can offload tasks or connections to a NIC that has the appropriate TCP/IP-offload capabilities.
Beginning with Windows Vista, the Windows operating system supports the following TCP/IP offload services:
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Checksum tasks
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Applications Internet protocol security (IPsec) offload version 1
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IPsec offload version 2
- [The IPsec Task Offload feature is deprecated and should not be used.]
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Large send offload version 1
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Large send offload version 2
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Connection offload
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