My main system runs Windows 7, because I play a lot of games. The only system I have running Linux at the moment is my mining box, but that has no monitor/keyboard and the only means of managing it is SSH.

I'll try this out sometime tomorrow, since it it's somewhat annoying to modify code on the server. (can't just edit -> save -> run, have to upload it over SFTP)

I have already tired simulating server downtime, but in the case of this issue (as I understand it) the connection isn't "busy" it's lost. I tried this already be blocking the IP in my router firewall. (so it just times out, as if the server were down) The miner was able to reconnect every time, and I tested it with 3 different pools, (deepbit, slush, bitcoinpool) MultiMiner, (using RPC) and a bitcoind instance running on a remote machine.

However simply delaying packets by some amount should make this easy to reproduce.