There was nothing between the two but a switch... although, disabling the Windows firewall on the IIS server seems to have fixed the problem! I don't have much experience with the built in windows firewall... but apparently it's not happy about something.
I think we'll switch over to a third party firewall application. Thanks for the help! You guys rock. -Geoff On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 1:39 AM, Willy Tarreau <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 01:25:29AM -0400, Geoffrey Mina wrote: > > That previous pcap file was from the webserver. Here is one from the > > HAproxy server which shows the entire transaction > > > > browser --> HAProxy --> IIS 6 webserver > > nice, this one shows that one packet is never received from the > server. It clearly indicates that something has destroyed it in > between : > > 07:21:37.103817 IP (tos 0x0, ttl 64, id 14663, offset 0, flags [DF], proto > TCP (6), length 64) > 173.203.208.131.36961 > 173.203.224.217.80: Flags [.], cksum 0xc296 > (correct), seq 2208368610, ack 2780496292, win 838, options [nop,nop,TS val > 11355136 ecr 21170741,nop,nop,sack 1 {2780497740:2780497752}], length 0 > > Try to bypass any firewall or to disable any seemingly magic > security feature between the server and the client. There are > high chances that it will fix the problem. > > Regards, > Willy > >

