Hi All; Thank you for your help. I couldn't figure out why my nic had a throughput of about 12bytes/s. So I wiped my server and rebuilt it with Fedora Core 2 (can't say I'm particularly happy as it seems I'm going to have to wrestle it to get a 1024 resolution out of it when RH 9 happily supported that). Anyway when it was still broken I went ahead and swapped out the nic cards AGAIN. Turns out I DID have a bad nic card. It just was not completely bad it would still allow a byte here or there to trickle through sigh..... Thank you for your support and help, and I'm still shaking my head over hemorrhaging 40+ hours on a bad piece of hardware grrrrrrrrrr, Jo -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list