I'm having a strange problem on a connection behind a Cisco modem connecting to a DSL network : outbound connections hang after transferring exactly 1024 bytes. Inbound connections are just fine. This is 100% reproducible on all of the router ports and on all computers on the network.
Not being a network kind of guy, I can deduce the modem/router is at fault, but which setting could cause this behavior ?
I've been tasked with nursing a single Windows 2003 SP2 server hosting an ecommerce website. A nation-wide promotion campaign is scheduled and my fear is that the poor machine will crumble under load. I'm trying to set up a simple monitoring solution, something that could allow me to monitor finely the load of the machine and plan the provisioning ahead of time. Being an UNIX guy, I need a few pointers on where to look.
It's a dual-proc Xeon E5503 (1.86 Ghz dual core) running a very poorly coded PHP website under IIS6. MySQL v5 is also running on the same host.
Sorry for the broken English :)