The 16 new servers I am working on is getting a lot of these errors:
[Microsoft][ODBC SQL Server Driver][DBNETLIB] General Network error. Check your network documentation
ERROR [08S01] [Microsoft][SQL Native Client]Communication link failure
System.Data.SqlClient.SqlException: A transport-level error has occurred when sending the request to the server. (provider: TCP Provider, error: 0 – An existing connection was forcibly closed by the remote host.)
Mostly the 2nd and 3rd error. I had this same problem on another set of 16 servers and after updating the NIC drivers and whatever else the network guys did, the error/issue still presist. The thing that fixed it was to run the following command on all servers:
