Windows 2003 Network Hangs Under Stress

I have a distributed .net application that is running on multiple
Windows 2003 servers. This appilcation opens multiple sockets between
these servers. When I run this application under stress, on some of
the Windows 2003 machines, the network simply hangs. I can no longer
even do PING. The only way to then resolve this issue is to either
reboot the machine or unplug and replug the networking cable.

Any ideas why this might be happening?

Thanks,

Iqbal

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I would at least make sure the machines with the problems have all the
updates.

hth
DDS

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>I have a distributed .net application that is running on multiple
> Windows 2003 servers. This appilcation opens multiple sockets between
> these servers. When I run this application under stress, on some of
> the Windows 2003 machines, the network simply hangs. I can no longer
> even do PING. The only way to then resolve this issue is to either
> reboot the machine or unplug and replug the networking cable.
>
> Any ideas why this might be happening?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Iqbal
>
> PS: When replying to this, please cc: (E-Mail Removed) as well.