Any network gurus figure this out? :)

[StageLeft]

I have a great big application running across two machines. It takes several hours to complete its operations and although sometimes it goes through sometimes it ceases and I get "The remote server machine does not exist or is unavailable" error.

I suppose the guys running the network should be fixing this but...they aren't.

Anyway am I right to guess this is almost certainly a hardware problem? Since it works most of the time it seems that the hardware is getting swamped...?

Thanks for any insight!

 

[duke]

Need more info. What's the network setup?

 

[aUt0eXebat]

well the network is most likly being flooded by all that traffice and others creating traffic, but yea we need more info

 

[Double Trouble]

Well, a lot of it depends on the hardware, the network topology, and the application being run, but I've seen routers and switches 'hiccup' after an extended period of maximum throughput -- for no appearent reason. The network connection is then lost.... very strange.