Hello! > Is there a reason that the write call returns? There is very good reason for return, connection is just destroyed. :-) Formally speaking, this is bug. That's why it has been repaired in 2.4. But practically it is harmless: well, it is necessary to do really mad things (sort of described in your mail :-)) to trigger this. Alexey - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html