Fatal Exception Errors in Wsipx.vxd

When you run a program that uses Windows sockets over the IPX/SPX protocol to transfer large quantities of datagrams, you may receive either of the following error messages: Also, your computer may stop responding (hang), or the client process on the remote computer may report transmission errors. Note that this problem is more likely to occur with slower computers.

This problem can occur if a buffer being used by a Windows sockets program is inadvertently freed twice by Windows Network Sockets for IPX (WSIPX) and the IPX/SPX-compatible protocol (NWLINK) then tries to access this buffer.

This problem no longer occurs in Windows 98. To resolve this problem, install the current version of Windows. For information about the current version of Windows, visit http://www.microsoft.com/windows (http://www.microsoft.com/windows) .

This problem is known to occur in conjunction with database backup operations using Sybase SQL Anywhere Network Server Version 5.5.01.

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