Bad NIC Card ?

["Chuck Lewis" <chuck.lewis@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Folks,

We keep getting this message on qsysopr every couple of minutes:

TCP/IP connection to remote system 172.16.10.79 closed, reason code 2.

                        Additional Message Information

 

Message ID . . . . . . :   TCP2617       Severity . . . . . . . :   20

Message type . . . . . :   Diagnostic

Date sent  . . . . . . :   07/09/09      Time sent  . . . . . . :
10:43:31   
 

Message . . . . :   TCP/IP connection to remote system 172.16.10.79
closed,    
  reason code 2.

Cause . . . . . :   The TCP/IP connection to remote system 172.16.10.79
has    
  been closed. The connection was closed for reason code 2.  Full
connection   
  details for the closed connection include:

    - local IP address is 172.16.10.11

    - local port is 20663

    - remote IP address is 172.16.10.79

    - remote port is 3766

Reason codes and their meanings follow:

    1 = TCP connection closed due to expiration of 10 minute Close Wait
timer. 
    2 = TCP connection closed due to R2 retry threshold being run.

 
More...

I've Googled the message and got info from IBM (first hit !) about using
CHGTCPA to change the Keep Alive setting and it's at 120 so I changed it
to 360 and still get it.

I'm beginning to wonder if there is a NIC card going bad in this PC ? It
doesn't drop the 5250 emulation sessions or anything thing.

Any idea/comments ?

Thanks !

Chuck