Just a small correction - don't know why, but I said I'm running 2.2.18 - it's still in the pre stage....current kernel is 2.2.17, and the problem is under 2.2.14-2.2.17 Dave Euser dave_euser@yahoo.com - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org