Works now :) I looked around on the web and made these 2 quick kernel mods: echo 2000 32767 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_local_port_range echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_no_pmtu_disc Ryan Thoryk Unix and Network Specialist Argonne National Laboratory home - ryan at tliquest.net work - rthoryk at anl.gov