That would be your error rate getting involved.

Small tcp transactions would still have errors, but not enough to completely 
kill the session before it's done, whereas larger transactions (ftp, etc) that 
want to keep talking will fail as the error rate exceeds the thresholds and the 
session drops.  The same problem can manifest as customers that can send email, 
but not email with attachments.

-Steve


On Sep 14, 2012, at 3:11 PM, Nicholas Leippe wrote:

> On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 12:08 PM, Lloyd Brown <[email protected]> wrote:
>> (I once had
> a bad cable that handled HTTP just fine, but made FTP simply vomit and
> caused some serious head scratching till we swapped out the cable--and
> it had no visible damage. 

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