Network issues with a server based application

Hello Everyone,
I'm hoping someone here might have some ideas that we could employ at our
site. We have a SQL based application running on top of MSDE 2000.
Throughout the day we have intermittant errors within the app that indicate
a connection loss to the server. Also when we come in to the office in the
a.m., if the app is left running they almost always show a disconnect error
from the application's database.

We've verified that the machines/NIC's aren't going into sleep/hibernation
mode and the cabling is new (that doesn't mean it is bullet proof though i
guess). Any ideas on how we can try to troubleshoot this? Ideas we've
tried are replacing the hub/switches and cables as well.

Is there any command we can run like a consistant ping with logging that
would show us when the network drops so we could try to narrow this down
more? Thanks!

Jason

Jason wrote:
> Hello Everyone,
> I'm hoping someone here might have some ideas that we could employ at our
> site. We have a SQL based application running on top of MSDE 2000.
> Throughout the day we have intermittant errors within the app that indicate
> a connection loss to the server. Also when we come in to the office in the
> a.m., if the app is left running they almost always show a disconnect error
> from the application's database.
>
> We've verified that the machines/NIC's aren't going into sleep/hibernation
> mode and the cabling is new (that doesn't mean it is bullet proof though i
> guess). Any ideas on how we can try to troubleshoot this? Ideas we've
> tried are replacing the hub/switches and cables as well.
>
> Is there any command we can run like a consistant ping with logging that
> would show us when the network drops so we could try to narrow this down
> more? Thanks!
>
> Jason
>
>

Are the application and system logs clean from relevant (to NIC or the
application) errors?

--
Pavlos Gerardos
MCP Windows XP, 2003 Server
pgerardos<AT>hotmail<DOT>com
Athens, Greece

"P.Gerardos" <pgerardos-AT-hotmail-DOT-com> wrote in message
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> Jason wrote:
>> Hello Everyone,
>> I'm hoping someone here might have some ideas that we could employ at our
>> site. We have a SQL based application running on top of MSDE 2000.
>> Throughout the day we have intermittant errors within the app that
>> indicate a connection loss to the server. Also when we come in to the
>> office in the a.m., if the app is left running they almost always show a
>> disconnect error from the application's database.
>>
>> We've verified that the machines/NIC's aren't going into
>> sleep/hibernation mode and the cabling is new (that doesn't mean it is
>> bullet proof though i guess). Any ideas on how we can try to
>> troubleshoot this? Ideas we've tried are replacing the hub/switches and
>> cables as well.
>>
>> Is there any command we can run like a consistant ping with logging that
>> would show us when the network drops so we could try to narrow this down
>> more? Thanks!
>>
>> Jason
>>
>>
>
> Are the application and system logs clean from relevant (to NIC or the
> application) errors?
>
> --
> Pavlos Gerardos
> MCP Windows XP, 2003 Server
> pgerardos<AT>hotmail<DOT>com
> Athens, Greece

Thanks! Yes the logs look clean as far as I can tell.