Hi,
we have a merge replication between a publisher (SQL Server 2008) and a few dozens subscribers (SQL Server 2008 R2 Express) that are disconnected most of the times. Because the subscribers are rarely connected, we set up the replication agent schedule to run daily, once per minute instead of continuously.
Our network administrator came to see me, showing me the firewall logs. There is a connect attempt between the SQL Server to each subscriber once every second (which doesn't match the once per minute schedule), using all kind of port numbers. It is not exactly once per second, but close.
Do you have any idea what causes this? Some kind of retries on failed connection attempt?
Thank you