I have seen the following problem on my own "home-grown" Linux system and also on RedHat 6.1 and Mandrake systems. When traffic over a telnet session exceeds some magic level, the session is disconnected. This usually seems to happen during a large ls -l or somesuch that generates lots of output quickly but may also happen if the total network traffic through the Linux box is very high. Can anybody please explain what is happening and suggest a way toavoid the problem. Cheers and thanks, Stephen Davies ======================================================================== Stephen Davies Consulting scldad@sdc.com.au Adelaide, South Australia. Voice: 08-8177 1595 Computing & Network solutions. Fax: 08-8177 0133 - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu