MSMQ ping and timeouts

Hello,

I am using MSMQ with a TCP network load balancer and I have two issues that I hope can be fixed by changing the configuration somehow.

1. If a computer needs to send and MSQM message, it first has to establish a TCP connection to the virtual IP at port 1801. Before it does that, however, it first sends a UDP "ping" packet to port 3527 . Then it waits 6 seconds for a reply that never comes and only after that it establishes the TCP connection. Is there a way to get rid of the ping or the 6-second waiting period? Should I make the load blanacer forward the UDP message somehow?

2. Could I force the sender the close the TCP connection after every single message sent?

I found an article that talks about this stuff:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/wcecomm5/html/wce50conmsmqregistrysettings.asp

But it works only for Windows CE 5.0 . How can I make this work in Windows Server 2003?

[1236 byte] By [ANewGuy] at [2007-12-25]