win95+cygwin1.3.10+Xwin+oldbox=dead network?

["Bishop, Dean" <dean dot bishop at tcdsb dot org>]

Good morning,

  i am quite perplexed with this problem.  i am using cygwin on an old
Pentium Pro with 128M RAM.  i use cygwin to connect to my Redhat 7.3 box.  i
am using this setup on a couple of other machines (one a p-III and one P-133
each connecting to a different Redhat 7.3 box)

  The problem here is that after an apparently arbitrary period of time, my
Xwindows sessions freezes.  As i move my mouse over the window, the display
refreshes.  Once i stop moving the mouse the refreshes stop.  This will
continue for about 10 seconds after which the Xwindows session just closes.
i am using the clock tick as an indicator of refresh.  

  Additionally, when the Xwindows session dies, so does the rest of my
network connection from the win95 box.  i am not sure whether the connection
is flooded or lost, either way i cannot see other machines on the network
(ping fails) nor can i surf the web.  Killing the Xwindows session and
restarting it corrects the problem.  


  There is a firewall between boxes but i just don't think that this is the
problem as all i have to do is close the Xwindows session to regain my
network.

Any advice would be appreciated.
later,
dean

CYGWIN_95-4.0 SHE 1.3.10(0.51/3/2) 2002-02-25 11:14 i586 unknown