On Nov 27, 2007 12:33 PM, Douglas McNaught <doug@mcnaught.org> wrote:
> Get a better router then. Something between your clients and the
> database server is timing out those connections, and it's most likely
> that box--NAT connections are timed out fairly aggressively by default
> on consumer routers (you didn't say whether you were using NAT or not,
> but it may be turned on by default). Relying on anything labeled
> "Linksys" for production work is a terrible idea.
Actually, if you use the linux based ones, or download dd-wrt or
openwrt and install that, the linksys routers are quite stable,
reliable, and performant.
Myself, I prefer the pre-installed buffalo router that DD-WRT ships,
but the software they make is quite amazing.