This is OT because none of the participating equipment runs Linux, but I figured it was worth asking anyway since some of you are network geeks.
I have an application called ProLaw that runs off a NetWare server on the other side of a PIX firewall. (The client is inside, the server is outside.) Most of my Win2K workstations perform fine. But two or three of them slow way down after a few hours of use, to the point that queries that normally take 10-15 seconds take 1.5 minutes! Meanwhile, other clients on the same switch keep working fine. Ethereal traces show that during the slow periods, the client retransmits a lot of ACKs of the same data. It will transmit the same ACK maybe 9 or 10 times in a row with only about 0.000002 seconds between. Then the server finally retransmits a packet of its own. Finally, the client ACKs all of the previously received data at once and catches up (about half of its window size). It does this over and over again, slowing down the overall communication. Can somebody please offer some insight on what could be happening here? --Eric _______________________________________________ RLUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.rlug.org/mailman/listinfo/rlug
