Checking the state of TCP Auto-tuning and Chimney (TOE)

I previous wrote about disabling TCP chimney and disabling auto-tuning - but what if you just want to see the status of these services?  In Widows 2008 and Windows Vista, netsh provides a status summary of these. You can view this information by running the following command:

netsh int tcp show global

This yields the following output:

Querying active state...

TCP Global Parameters
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Receive-Side Scaling State          : enabled
Chimney Offload State               : disabled
Receive Window Auto-Tuning Level    : disabled
Add-On Congestion Control Provider  : none
ECN Capability                      : disabled
RFC 1323 Timestamps                 : disabled

The second and third line show the chimney status and receive window auto-tuning level respectively.  Auto-tuning is only available on Windows Server 2008 and Windows Vista whereas chimney is available as of Windows 2003 SP2 or SP1 with the SNP (Scalable Networking Pack) installed.