Advice about 'many aborted clients'

Hello, we're using mysql 3.23.33 on a separate Linux server, but about 50% of all connections go wrong and get an error like this: "Aborted connection 84620 to db: 'xxx' user: 'yyy' host: `aaa.bbb.cc.ddd.' (Got timeout reading communication packets)". There are 3 frontends (Sun) webservers. We'r

replication between ms sql and mysql

Hi, we've got a customer with a large ms sql database but want to replicate a smaller dataset to our own mysql server. Is this possible, and does anybody have experiences with it, regards, Sander