This article discusses the following topics:
General information about the Microsoft Scalable Networking Pack (SNP)
Errors that your application may receive when it connects to an instance of Microsoft SQL Server that is hosted on a Windows-based computer that has some of or all the networking performance improvements enabled
Note This article also includes recommendations for preventing these errors on computers that are running various versions of Windows.
Additional references
Note The guidance in this article also applies to the host and guest operating systems in virtualization environments.