Subject Re: [ib-support] "SERVER/process_packet: broken port, server exiting" errors
Author Jason Chapman (JAC2)
Does this corrupt the DB, why do you have to do a backup / restore?

What is you connection string to the database? What components are you
using to get to the DB?

See below:


""sllflanagan"" <sflanagan@...> wrote in message
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> We are getting this error from .5 to 3 times daily and have to
> backup/restore the database.
> This started when we began using a 802.11b Cisco Aironet RF network
> with 11 access points
> and 4 PCs with RF cards in cranes. The server is IBOpen 6.0.2.0 and
> the client is using
> Delphi6 with BDEv5.11. All PCs are Win2000: one crane has no SP, 3
> are SP3, and the
> server is SP2.
> Can you answer the following:
>
> 1. How/when does the interbase engine decide to declare a connection
> broken?
> Is it solely based on the loss of an associated TCP socket
> connection, or does it also
> consider delay over an open socket?
> 2. How does the database server handle abnormal disconnects?
> Does it clean up open transactions?
>
> Thank you for your help.
> - Steve Flanagan
>
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