In kernel 2.4.22-rc2 (rh 7.3), I performed the following action: ifdown eth2:0 and got the following error: Oct 15 13:43:09 fw01 kernel: alloc_skb called nonatomically from interrupt c01be744 Oct 15 13:43:09 fw01 kernel: kernel BUG at skbuff.c:174! the relevant info from System.map is: c01be720 T sock_rmalloc Anyone know why this happened? Phil - : 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