In message <OF0B6F17A5.F25E028E-ON88256D5A.007F50CB@us.ibm.com>,David Stevens writes: >This has been fixed already; please update to a later kernel. > +-DLS are you referring to: ChangeSet@1.1310.1.32, 2003-06-18 18:01:12-07:00, dlstevens@us.ibm.com [IPV4/IPV6]: Fix IGMP device refcount leaks, with help from yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org. i just pulled the latest 2.5 sources and i dont see any changes that would seem to correct the bug i am seeing. the timers still use __in_dev_put() to drop the references. this wont call in_dev_finish_destroy() if it drops the last reference (which is fairly likely given the duration of the timers). - : 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