I was thrilled to see the RPC patch but find that I cannot use it. My RedHat 7.3 system running kernel 2.4.20 hangs on boot with: Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000010 I thought it might be the use of cryptoapi so I removed it. That made no difference. I overwrote the kernel source with a fresh copy and recompiled without cryptoapi. That didn't make a difference either. I suspected some of the other patches but the one that made the error go away when removed and return when applied was RPC. Has anyone else had this problem? -- John A. Sullivan III Chief Technology Officer Nexus Management +1 207-985-7880 john.sullivan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx --- If you are interested in helping to develop a GPL enterprise class VPN/Firewall/Security device management console, please visit http://iscs.sourceforge.net