Hello sorry if this is not the right place to post about the problem... Any idea what may cause this: # cat /proc/net/dev | wc -l 268 # ls -l /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/ | wc -l 120 all the interfaces are UP and have an ip address the kernel is 2.4.29 (kernel.org, no pathches applied). there are no error messages in the kernel log. -- Anton Glinkov network administrator - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html