Date: Sun, 7 Jan 2001 23:55:28 -0600 (CST) From: Paul Cassella <pwc@speakeasy.net> [1.] One line summary of the problem: write() returns -1 and sets errno non-sensically. 2.4.0{,-ac[23]} What you describe I can only say is "impossible". There are only four cases when _ANY_ part of the ipv4 networking stack can return ESRCH. These four cases are: 1) Adding a route 2) Deleting a route 3) Adding a FIB routing rule 3) Removing a FIB routing rule None of them can occur via TCP socket writes (only netlink socket operations or socket control calls). Therefore I suspect you are perhaps getting rather some form of memory corruption or similar, really, please search the networking code for ESRCH value usage, you will see. Later, David S. Miller davem@redhat.com - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org