"Unable to send ping" message on JBossEAP client side

Issue

• We have recently started getting the following error in our logs, so far just on local workstations and not on a server cluster. The error continues to be logged, about once every 10 seconds.
  Can you please explain what this error means, and how to eliminate it?

WARN [org.jboss.remoting.transport.bisocket.BisocketClientInvoker]  - Unable to send ping: shutting down PingTimerTask
java.net.SocketException: Connection reset by peer: socket write error
        at java.net.SocketOutputStream.socketWrite0(Native Method)
        at java.net.SocketOutputStream.socketWrite(SocketOutputStream.java:92)
        at java.net.SocketOutputStream.write(SocketOutputStream.java:115)
        at org.jboss.remoting.transport.bisocket.BisocketClientInvoker$PingTimerTask.run(BisocketClientInvoker.java:723)
        at java.util.TimerThread.mainLoop(Timer.java:512)
        at java.util.TimerThread.run(Timer.java:462)

or

WARN  [org.jboss.remoting.transport.bisocket.BisocketClientInvoker] (Timer-7) Unable to send ping: shutting down PingTimerTask
java.net.SocketException: Broken pipe
        at java.net.SocketOutputStream.socketWrite0(Native Method)
        at java.net.SocketOutputStream.socketWrite(SocketOutputStream.java:92)
        at java.net.SocketOutputStream.write(SocketOutputStream.java:115)
        at org.jboss.remoting.transport.bisocket.BisocketClientInvoker$PingTimerTask.run(BisocketClientInvoker.java:735)
        at java.util.TimerThread.mainLoop(Timer.java:512)
        at java.util.TimerThread.run(Timer.java:462)