On Fri, Dec 03, 2010 at 06:03:19PM -0800, Liam Slusser wrote: > > This almost seems like a networking/firewall issue... ?Do you have > > any trunks setup between the switch that the client and/or server > > are on and the router? ?Perhaps one of those trunk legs is down > > causing random packets to get blackholed? > > I thought the exact same thing...but like i said i can telnet to the > host/port without any issue. And there is no other issues on the > network that would indicate any not working correctly. And all the > other clients on the same network/switch are working fine. Its only > when a client crashes... Consistently? If random telnets fail then that would explain your random SYN_SENT state stuck sockets. Is the client or server using bonded nics? Mohan