----- "Stephan von Krawczynski" <skraw at ithnet.com> wrote: > Hopefully you do not disconnect after one lost "ping". Unfortunately > one can > experience some lost packets over the day. There is few you can do > about it. > Some are lost because of real disconnects but most are just glitches > in > switches and network drivers. Are these real tcp > disconnects/timeouts? We disconnect after one lost ping because otherwise a command like "ls" or an application could hang forever. Reconnect is attempted soon after the disconnect. Vikas -- Engineer - Z Research http://gluster.com/