> Hi,
>
> I am an administrator of an application in Delphi, which in past used
> database Interbase installed
> on Linux server. Everything was OK. The new version of the
> program begun to
> use database Firebird 1.0. It is again installed on Linux server and the
> users are clients working in Win95-2000, there are 33 of them. I installed
> the Client tools for Firebird for Windows client on every users
> PC, but from
> that time on the program crashes, usually when the user doesn't work with
> program for a while. When the program crashes the system writes this note:
>
> Win32 error10054 (+IP address of the server)
> Exception EIBInterBase Error in module
> EDR32CS.exe (-> name of the application)
> at 001210BD
>
> Unable to complete network
> request to host
> "172.22.22.2"
> Error reading data from connection
>
> After this system cycles in Error messages and hard restart of computer is
> necessary, CTRL-ALT-DEL doesn't help.
> Can anybody help me? I have tried to find out any solution on the internet
> but wasn't successful. I only found that there are people who had
> similar or
> the same problem as me but no solution. Please remeber that I am
> only a user
> of system and have no special knowledge about Linux and network
> connections.
> We have a system administrator but unless I specify perfectly my
> problem he
> doesn't want to deal with me. Please help me if you can, 33 users are
> waiting for my solution. Thanks.
>
> Elena Schwanova
>

you say "when the user doesn't work with it for a while"
does this mean one user only or all users?
if you mean the former then I would accuse that user's NIC as the likely
problem. if you mean all users start the problem, then I would suspect the
server's NIC.

Alan