diff --git a/boards/arm/imx6/sabre-6quad/configs/netnsh/defconfig b/boards/arm/imx6/sabre-6quad/configs/netnsh/defconfig
index 326fa9239b4..771944eedd6 100644
--- a/boards/arm/imx6/sabre-6quad/configs/netnsh/defconfig
+++ b/boards/arm/imx6/sabre-6quad/configs/netnsh/defconfig
@@ -40,8 +40,8 @@ CONFIG_HAVE_CXXINITIALIZE=y
 CONFIG_IMX6_ENET=y
 CONFIG_IMX6_UART1=y
 CONFIG_IMX_DDR_SIZE=1073741824
-CONFIG_IMX_ENET_NTXBUFFERS=1
 CONFIG_INTELHEX_BINARY=y
+CONFIG_IOB_NBUFFERS=128
 CONFIG_MAX_TASKS=16
 CONFIG_NET=y
 CONFIG_NETDB_DNSCLIENT=y
@@ -60,6 +60,7 @@ CONFIG_NET_ICMP_SOCKET=y
 CONFIG_NET_MAX_LISTENPORTS=8
 CONFIG_NET_STATISTICS=y
 CONFIG_NET_TCP=y
+CONFIG_NET_TCP_WRITE_BUFFERS=y
 CONFIG_NET_UDP=y
 CONFIG_NET_UDP_CHECKSUMS=y
 CONFIG_NFILE_DESCRIPTORS=8