> Randomly one of my applications is going down giving a 10054
> error. ( The number
> I hate the most nowadays :) I detest 10054 ) The application
> which is crashing
> is a server application which has upto six to eight threads
> making connections and
> then closing and exiting. On the same machine at the same time my client
> application is running, this has only has two threads which are
> held open all
> the time. This application will run fine at the same time and not give a
> problem. If I have a ping -t running it will never lose
> connection with the
> server.

ping is not a socket connection so it's not a good test. In fact each ping
is succinct and you are making coms with the server at the rate of x per
sec - not a single connection.

10054 is sometimes hardware related - have you tried swapping the NIC? You
can also search this group on 10054 and you will get a lot of discussion on
the subject.
Alan