New switches, yes?

platypus

platypus

platypus

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A small-med network of an average of 60 active network connections at any one time.

Two servers (Dual [email protected], 4GB Ram) running MSSQL Server 2000 databases, two remote servers (Single [email protected], 3GB Ram (?!)) serving 10 remote desktop sessions. Lots of workstation clients. Three 24 port 10/100 switches. Malformed packets flying everywhere between clients and servers.

Database access is being crippled at present, queries are taking ages, huge hits on the database making the system hard to use.

The obvious answer is new gigabit switches, but money is a problem..
 
Wireshark is reporting malformed packets left right and centre, between the remote terminal servers and the two servers, nothing between the servers and the clients, but everyone is experiencing slowdown. There doesn't seem to be a performance issue with the database (local access is spot on), cache hit ratio is averaging 99% for example. Part of the problem atm is that the customer doesn't want to spend any money.
 
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