RE: Socket problems under heavy load on Win2K

[GOMEZ Henri]

>       The description is right, but the implications are 
>wrong.  Due to
>how TCP/IP works, these sockets will be closed by the OS within a few
>minutes.  I know on some UNIXs you can set this at run time 
>(i.e. Solaris)
>and some its a compile time directive (i.e. FreeBSD).  I don't 
>know about
>Windows, but they seem to be closed in about 5 minutes, all 
>defaults that
>I've seen under Unix are between 2 and 5 minutes.  

FYI, they stay FOREVER on AS/400 !