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How to turn off native transport on a Minecraft server

Set use-native-transport=false in server.properties and restart the server if you get network errors on Linux. It turns off epoll networking.

use-native-transport

Controls whether the server uses Linux native networking (epoll) for better network performance.

use-native-transport=<value>

Examples

use-native-transport=true

Default on Linux.

Values

ValueWhat it does
trueDefault On
false Off

Arguments

valueRequired
The value to write after the equals sign.

What it does

On Linux this improves packet handling. Turn it off only when troubleshooting network issues on unusual systems.

Good to know

  • Changes take effect after a server restart.

Run it on your server

On a SLASHPLAY server, type it in the Console tab without the leading slash; in game, operators type it in chat with the slash. New to this? Start a Minecraft server first.

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