Hello! > Perhaps, this behaviour should > be configurable/sysctable ?? The behaviour is prescribed by TCP specs. Nothing to sysctl. Look at all those nice pictures in rfc793, which explain what occurs with half-open connections and how tcp resynchronizes in this situation. Do you have something to add to this picture? Alexey - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu