Re: [twsocket] trying to avoid MS tcp throttling ('half-open' connections limit); problems with aborting connections.

2008-03-10 Thread Arno Garrels
Merijn Bosma wrote: > Unfortunately this is not really an option at customer sites :| I got a BSOD once, most likely caused by the patch. -- Arno Garrels [TeamICS] http://www.overbyte.be/eng/overbyte/teamics.html -- To unsubscribe or change your settings for TWSocket mailing list please goto

Re: [twsocket] trying to avoid MS tcp throttling ('half-open' connections limit); problems with aborting connections.

2008-03-10 Thread Merijn Bosma
Unfortunately this is not really an option at customer sites :| > I download some software to patch the system file http://lvllord.de/ > > > -- To unsubscribe or change your settings for TWSocket mailing list please goto http://lists.elists.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/twsocket Visit our web

Re: [twsocket] trying to avoid MS tcp throttling ('half-open' connections limit); problems with aborting connections.

2008-03-10 Thread Frans van Daalen
- Original Message - From: "Merijn Bosma" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Monday, March 10, 2008 1:57 PM Subject: [twsocket] trying to avoid MS tcp throttling ('half-open' connections limit); problems with aborting connections. > Hi all, > > We've been using ICS for quite a while now, b

[twsocket] trying to avoid MS tcp throttling ('half-open' connections limit); problems with aborting connections.

2008-03-10 Thread Merijn Bosma
Hi all, We've been using ICS for quite a while now, but recenlty we've come at the point that we hit the limit of 10 'half-open' connections introduced in Windows XP SP2. See: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/support/ee/transform.aspx?ProdName=Windows%20Operating%20System&ProdVer=5.2&EvtID=4226

Re: [twsocket] Problem using same UDP port for both listen and send

2008-03-10 Thread Dave Baxter
Hi Dod.. No problem, and yes I also get hit by things like this, not only in software!... Trouble is, the longer we keep fixing these sort of things, the more of them we get to do! Supose it keeps us out of trouble, or does it?.. Cheers. Dave B. > -Original Message- > From: Dod [mai

Re: [twsocket] Problem using same UDP port for both listen and send

2008-03-10 Thread Dod
Hello Dave, Thanx for this long answer, I am already aware of all the way it "should" be done, but I have to work on a very old client/server project for which the sources has been lost, so I need to keep the same way it actually works and do the patch thru a proxy that will em

Re: [twsocket] Problem using same UDP port for both listen and send

2008-03-10 Thread Dave Baxter
Hi... Unless you are using an existing known protocol, in which case you'd idealy use one of the recognised existing port numbers Port 80, 8008, 8080 for an HTTP server for example. Letting the system pick a random port to listen on as a server is a bit unproductive, as how would you inform