Thanks Pekka.. you're absolutely right. I have re-posted the article in HTML format: http://campus.murraystate.edu/tsm/tsm352/articles/traceroutebug.htm JMcLaren - : 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