Packet drops should be counted somewhere, barring a bug, so does "netstat -s" show any drop counters going up? Your kernel is too old; you should try it on something more current, too. A lot of bugs have been fixed since 2.6.8. :-) +-DLS - To unsubscribe from this list: 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