At 01:27 PM 12/02/2004 +0530, you wrote:

>I use Windows in my development shop and most of my customers use Windows
>Servers. One customer wanted to use Linux Server. I jumped into hot water
>by saying
>"go ahead" and am now drowning.
>
>Any help on What I should try to investigate welcome!
>
>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

>up to six to eight threads making connections

>and then closing and exiting.

If I have a ping -t running it will never lose connection with the

>server.
>
>At this time if I try to open a new client from another machine it is working
>fine.

So have you eliminated dynamic IP addressing as the reason why the address
becomes unavailable? It's an easy trap when installing Linux from CDs to
take the defaults. On most of the distros I've encountered, you get
dynamic IP addressing by default...

/hb