Disconnecting a Terminal Services session causes system hiccups.
Dear reader,We've noticed some unwanted behavior in MSTSC when a network connection drops during a MSTSC session to a server. What happens is that when the user is disconnect from the remote session due to the network connection dropping, the entire system will freeze for a few seconds making communication over other physical adapters within that same remote device which aren't affected by a dropping network connection impossible.In order to reproduce this we've run several tests on the following windows versions using diverse hardware:Windows 2003 Server Standard Edition Windows 2008 Server R2 Windows XP Tests have been run on both physical and VMWare Virtual Servers. All systems were equipped with at least two physical ethernet adapters on differents IP nets.During the test we set up a MSTSC connection to the windows server over the first adapter (A) on that server. On the other ethernet adapter (B) we've set up an application communicating to a client on another machine sending simple messages every second and receiving replies.When we pulled the cable to ethernet adapter A and in doing that, disconnected the MSTSC connection, the communication on ethernet adapter B would fail aswell for just a few seconds.Is this a known issue? And in such any solution?1 person needs an answerI do too
December 29th, 2010 5:44am

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December 29th, 2010 6:02pm

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