Reply To: Multiserver options

[Anonymous]

I wouldn’t call myself a socket expert so I’m only speaking from my experience.  In a project were we tried to maintain a cloverleaf to cloverleaf tcpip connection accross the internet we got some odd results.  We would find that after some period of time the sender would try to send a transmission but the receiver would never get it and the sender would eventually timeout waiting for replies.  The protocol status on both sides was up.

We had to surmise that on one of the hops along the way through the internet one of the switches must have timed out our connection.  When that happens, it doesn’t inform the application so Cloverleaf doesn’t know to disconnect.

I wasn’t aware that Windows would take action on a port without an event but I am aware that a switch or a hub along the way might do something to the connection.