Sean, I had something similar happen here when I had a second machine connected to my router, and and had a ssh connection from my desktop system into that second system. It worked great for a while and after some hours it stopped functioning. The problem turned out to be that the router had reissued a different dynamic IP address to the second system, and that broke the ssh connection. I killed the ssh process on the desktop and restarted it with the new IP address and it worked fine as before. Could it be that one of the ends of your setup has been assigned a dynamic IP address that has changed? Just a thought. Chuck -- The Moon is Waxing Crescent (27% of Full) But you can still get downloads from http://www.mhcable.com/~chuckh