thx! I'm going to try this.
This is by the way, the error message from eclipse log, we are getting:
Gateway on host XXXX/ sapgw00
ERROR timeout during allocate TIME Tue Jul 29 14:31:31 2014
RELEASE 741 COMPONENT SAP-Gateway
VERSION 2 RC 242
MODULE /bas/741_REL/src/krn/si/gw/gwr3cpic.c LINE 2160
DETAIL no connect of TP sapdp00 from host XXX after 20 sec COUNTER 3
Caused by: com.sap.conn.jco.JCoException: (102) JCO_ERROR_COMMUNICATION: Connect from SAP gateway to RFC server failed Connection ....