Hi :) i'm writing an application which uses a lot of sockets, on jdk1.1.7 everthing works well, on jdk1.2 a read with a DataInputStream on a socket causes an IOException: Read end dead and closes the connection. has this something todo with the multicastsockets kernel bug ? at the moment i'm using debian2.1 kernel 2.0.36 if so, i will upgrade my system to 2.2.x immediatly thx for comments Tele ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]