Roger, this from the MERS faq:

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>TEXUROSERVER1 (Server) Tue May 19 16:59:46 1998
> INET/inet_error: read errno = 10054

Messages of the form NAME/name come from an external service called
NAME - the INET service in this case. The message category is name -
inet_error. The actual message text follows. This one means
connection lost. The cause is probably the fact that the server
crashed. The same message also occurs when a client exits without
closing the database connection. In any event, for messages of the
form NAME/name: text, look in the documentation for NAME under name.
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So perhaps the second explanation??: "The same message also occurs
when a client exits without closing the database connection"

HTH
Regards,
Andrew Ferguson

--- In ib-support@y..., "Roger Pullen" <pullen.roger@v...> wrote:
> Have noticed this error occurring lots of times in the interbase
log,
> what does it mean? - is it anything to worry about?
>
> MARKINSDB (Server) Fri Apr 12 11:50:17 2002
> INET/inet_error: read errno = 10054
>
> MARKINSDB (Server) Fri Apr 12 11:50:38 2002
> INET/inet_error: read errno = 10054
>
> MARKINSDB (Server) Fri Apr 12 13:36:19 2002
> INET/inet_error: read errno = 10054
>
> Everything is running OK though
>
> W2K server, IB6 original
>
> Regards
>
> Roger