RHEL: Low throughput between MS Windows systems and Red Hat Enterprise Linux systems

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • MS Windows system was using a small MTU and not advertising an MSS value.
  • How does Microsoft's EnablePMTUDiscovery registry setting affect network performance with RHEL?

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux
    • all versions
  • Microsoft Windows - all versions

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