John Pitman wrote:
> In one office only, a couple of users, each with multiple reflection sessions open, have the currently working Reflection session drop off, and Outlook comes up with a logon prompt, indicating it lost connection to its server. The other reflection sessions don't drop. At most 3 users out of 10 have reported the problem.

This is most likely just an intermittent link problem (I know that 
doesn't help to identify what/where).  For a TCP session, you can "break 
the link" anywhere along the way for a certain period of time before the 
session is dropped -- as long as you aren't actively transmitting data 
at the time.  That would be your "3 out of 10" users, probably the more 
active ones. 

You might try a simple connectivity monitor (a periodic 'ping' would do) 
from end to end to see if it sheds some light on the problem.  Some 
low-level errors may come to light here, either in dropped packets, or 
for bonus points, an ICMP error.  If you get the latter, it will be 
returned by the router that is detecting the problem, and at least get 
you in the ballpark.  If you're unlucky, the problem may be buried 
somewhere down in the MPLS link, and you may be at the mercy of your 
provider to troubleshoot the exact cause with your "logical" circuit 
through their cloud.

As for the 'could not initialize data in path with TCP' messages, these 
are low-level connection setup messages which I would guess are the 
result of received ICMP errors or RSTs during connection establishment.  
I'll defer to one of the MPE gurus for the specific network conditions 
that lead to this MPE specific interpretation.


Jeff

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