High Volume of Net Traffic coming from MSSQL

We're having a bit of an issue with network traffic being generated from one
of our MSSQL Servers.
It seems that when we launch Enterprise Manager on a remote computer
(usually at another office), the MSSQL servers start sending packets to the
EM regardless of whether we are maintaining an active connection to the
server or not. What is happening is that these packets are being lost and
reported in our firewall as 'host unreachable'. These packets are also
firing every second for each EM open across our network, so this is becoming
a bit of a pain for our poor network guys. The other odd thing is that the
firewall is only reporting one-way traffic, from the server to the client,
but the client is not sending any traffic back down unless it is actively
connected to the remote server.
Any thoughts as to why this might be happening, or better yet, a way to cull
this traffic?
We're running MSSQL 2000 SP3a on Windows 2003 servers.
Thanks in advance!
Mike,Have you applied the post-SP3a hotfix?
Tom
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Thomas A. Moreau, BSc, PhD, MCSE, MCDBA
SQL Server MVP
Toronto, ON Canada
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"Mike Schurkin" <MikeSchurkin@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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We're having a bit of an issue with network traffic being generated from one
of our MSSQL Servers.
It seems that when we launch Enterprise Manager on a remote computer
(usually at another office), the MSSQL servers start sending packets to the
EM regardless of whether we are maintaining an active connection to the
server or not. What is happening is that these packets are being lost and
reported in our firewall as 'host unreachable'. These packets are also
firing every second for each EM open across our network, so this is becoming
a bit of a pain for our poor network guys. The other odd thing is that the
firewall is only reporting one-way traffic, from the server to the client,
but the client is not sending any traffic back down unless it is actively
connected to the remote server.
Any thoughts as to why this might be happening, or better yet, a way to cull
this traffic?
We're running MSSQL 2000 SP3a on Windows 2003 servers.
Thanks in advance!
Mike,|||We have the entire SP3a hotfix installed, but I am unaware of a post SP3a fi
x
- are you referring to SP4?
"Tom Moreau" wrote:

> Have you applied the post-SP3a hotfix?
> --
> Tom
> ----
> Thomas A. Moreau, BSc, PhD, MCSE, MCDBA
> SQL Server MVP
> Toronto, ON Canada
> ..
> "Mike Schurkin" <MikeSchurkin@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:C948BB2C-1A9D-4B73-9BDF-72B74A1FA9A2@.microsoft.com...
> We're having a bit of an issue with network traffic being generated from o
ne
> of our MSSQL Servers.
> It seems that when we launch Enterprise Manager on a remote computer
> (usually at another office), the MSSQL servers start sending packets to th
e
> EM regardless of whether we are maintaining an active connection to the
> server or not. What is happening is that these packets are being lost and
> reported in our firewall as 'host unreachable'. These packets are also
> firing every second for each EM open across our network, so this is becomi
ng
> a bit of a pain for our poor network guys. The other odd thing is that th
e
> firewall is only reporting one-way traffic, from the server to the client,
> but the client is not sending any traffic back down unless it is actively
> connected to the remote server.
> Any thoughts as to why this might be happening, or better yet, a way to cu
ll
> this traffic?
> We're running MSSQL 2000 SP3a on Windows 2003 servers.
> Thanks in advance!
> Mike,
>|||Define "entire SP3a hotfix". There is the service pack - SP3a - and then
there is the hotfix. Are you saying that you have applied SP3a but not the
hotfix? IOW, have you applied:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/821277
Tom
----
Thomas A. Moreau, BSc, PhD, MCSE, MCDBA
SQL Server MVP
Toronto, ON Canada
.
"Mike Schurkin" <MikeSchurkin@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:5D90B16F-7EDB-401C-8022-106365D44347@.microsoft.com...
We have the entire SP3a hotfix installed, but I am unaware of a post SP3a
fix
- are you referring to SP4?
"Tom Moreau" wrote:

> Have you applied the post-SP3a hotfix?
> --
> Tom
> ----
> Thomas A. Moreau, BSc, PhD, MCSE, MCDBA
> SQL Server MVP
> Toronto, ON Canada
> ..
> "Mike Schurkin" <MikeSchurkin@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:C948BB2C-1A9D-4B73-9BDF-72B74A1FA9A2@.microsoft.com...
> We're having a bit of an issue with network traffic being generated from
> one
> of our MSSQL Servers.
> It seems that when we launch Enterprise Manager on a remote computer
> (usually at another office), the MSSQL servers start sending packets to
> the
> EM regardless of whether we are maintaining an active connection to the
> server or not. What is happening is that these packets are being lost and
> reported in our firewall as 'host unreachable'. These packets are also
> firing every second for each EM open across our network, so this is
> becoming
> a bit of a pain for our poor network guys. The other odd thing is that
> the
> firewall is only reporting one-way traffic, from the server to the client,
> but the client is not sending any traffic back down unless it is actively
> connected to the remote server.
> Any thoughts as to why this might be happening, or better yet, a way to
> cull
> this traffic?
> We're running MSSQL 2000 SP3a on Windows 2003 servers.
> Thanks in advance!
> Mike,
>