Intermittent connection errors
 

HI,
I have a windows and linux machine communicationg via a land line.The windows machine requests a servlet from the Linux machine.This works most of the time,however I often get a page not found error from this request.When this problem occurs, if I try do a traceroute from the linux to the windows machine I get nothing,but a traceroute from windows to linux is fine.The intermittent nature of this problem has made it very hard to deduce,can anyone shed some light on the problem.