Windows problems and Linux question

[Gregg Hamby <gchamby --at-- bellsouth.net>]

  Greetings all. I merely wanted to offer my experiences re: iperf 1.7 on Windows. I saw another post in which someone stated that their windows systems were stopping and that they could not run iperf as a service on Windows. I too had the same problems. In my case, iperf was running on three different (identical) laptops - Compaq Armada e500s running Windows XP SP1A using the built in Ethernet adapter.
  In each case iperf would run but would hang after a day or so of continual use.
  I was performing UDP tests from two clients to one server and used the Windows task scheduler to run the clients at 5 minute intervals.
  Typically I would come back to the client and discover it had 'hung' and had to be killed and restarted.
  After attempting to get that to work I simply deployed Red Hat 8 on each laptop and began using that. It is working much better and I was able to collect UDP data for 13 days straight.
  However, I do see one error appear on the server machine. After several hours the server will report "read failed:connection refused" (continuous scroll) but iperf is still running and logging data?
  On the server, I am simply running ./iperf -u -s >> <name of my log file>

  On each client I am running ./iperf -c <ip of host> -u >> <log file> at 10 minute intervals via cron.

  Any idea what the server error is and what it might mean? Since iperf continues to function I didn't consider it critical.

  Thanks,
  Gregg.