hi i was looking through my syslog the other day, and two messages caught my eye timeout waiting for PADO packets terminates DSL. Session terminated -- received PADT from access concentrator in both cases my dsl died. what are PADO packets, why would they timeout, and what is an access concentrator, and PADT? sorry for so many questions thank you max - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu