[geeks] Possible problem with W2K's TCP/IP stack?

[Thomas Gallaway]

Yes I have had massive problem's with Win2k's TCP/IP stuff.
It mostly turned out that they where faulty installations.
The most issues I had with windows 2000 server products.
Just recently I had the problem that some service blew the
system up what I think was a memory leakage (i found out by
the big bucket of memory I had to clean up when I removed
the machine temporarly from it's service).
Also I have this other client that has 2 faulty 2k server's that
the networking part is so messed up the machine takes about
5 minutes to get to the part where it hang's 25minutes in
"preparing network connections".
(this where only 2 examples of about 20 I could count up)

To put this all together YES there are massive ussues. Maybe
"clone" an identical system with the same stuff installed and just
see if it's a messed up 2k installation or so.

cja,
        thomas

----- Original Message -----
From: "Brian Dunbar" <Brian.Dunbar at plexus.com>
To: <geeks at sunhelp.org>
Sent: Saturday, December 14, 2002 1:15 AM
Subject: [geeks] Possible problem with W2K's TCP/IP stack?


> Possible problem with W2K's TCP/IP stack?
>
> Assume the following - an application lives on Windows 2K.  Every few
> seconds it examines a database on another server for a flag, if it finds
the
> flag it prints the record after running it through a filter.  Voila, bar
> code label.*
>
> Problem:  When the printing demand increases, the number of errors do
too -
> error messages indicating it can't find the printer's IP address, non
> recoverable IP stack errors, other low level layer weirdness.
>
> The network is fine, the printers didn't drop off the net.  I'm stuck with
> the feeling that the app is jamming crap into the TCP/IP stack than it can
> handle, and it's fubaring things up.  Somehow.
>
> Are there known problems with W2K and TCP/IP?  I'm not asking y'all to
solve
> my problem really, just general noise and commentary to get me started.
>
>
> Brian Dunbar
> System Administrator - Plexus
>
>
> *We're committed to the app - the developers like it for the other dozen
> things it can do for _them_ (and the end users).  It's going to get busier
> as well - more systems coming on line for Manufacturing are going to use
it
> for label printing.
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