Hi, I assume you installed SP2 for XP, right? In this case, this is most probably caused by the TCP restrictions introduced with SP2. Microsoft implemented them to slow down spread rates of worms. Have a look at http://www.speedguide.net/read_articles.php?id=1497 for more information on this topic, as well as a "workaround". Alexander >>> mail@xxxxxxxxxxx 30.05.2005 10:41:47 >>> windows xp pro (german) says: TCP/IP hat das Sicherheitslimit erreicht, das für die Anzahl gleichzeitiger TCP-Verbindungsversuche festgelegt wurde. Weitere Informationen über die Hilfe- und Supportdienste erhalten Sie unter http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp. (translation: TCP/IP has reached the safety-limit, which is fixed for the TCP-Connection tries at same time) --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx