I'm running into more connection stacking and while I solved my 3 second delay thanks to F5, i'm still seeing over 9000,10000 connections on my web servers, all in Time Wait and most of them from Squid. As I continue to look thru config options, kernel params, I noticed this; Do not set REUSEADDR on port.. And wondered if I'm not using any persistance at all in my environment, if this is something I should be setting -R Thanks Tory