well, after cvsup'ing and building of the world, the network seems to work a litte better. but under faily heavy load (flood pinging _form_ the host and floodpint _to_ the host) results in a trap 12. seem that actually the heavy output kills the machine. Fatal trap 12: page fault while in kernel mode faul virtual address = 0x8 fault code = supervisor read, page not present instruction pointer = 0x8:0xc019d05c stack pointer = 0x10:0xc8967ce4 frame pointer = 0x10:0xc8967d10 code segment = base 0x0, limit 0xfffff, type 0x1b = DPL 0, pres 1, def32 1, gran 1 processor eflags = interrupt enabled, resume, IOPL = 0 current process = 266 (ping) interrupt mask = kernel: type 12 trap, code=0 Stopped at in_delayed_cksum+0x64: mov 0x8(%ebx),%eax db> trace in_delayed_cksum(c0662800,c8967da4,c0662800,c066284a,c016bb24) at in_delayed_cksum+0x64 ip_output(c0662800,0) at icmp_send+0x62 icmp_refelct(c0662800,c0662800,40,ffff0000,40) at icmp_refelct+0x203 icmp_input(c0662800,14,1,c0662800,40) at icmp_input+0x357 ip_input(c0662800) at ip_input+0x780 ipintr(c01da3ff,0,10,10,10) at ipintr+0x4b swi_net_next(c895cac0,6,c8967f10,0,807c2a0) at swi_new_next sendto(c895cac0,c8967f80,40,807c2a,32a) at sendto+0x4d syscall2(2f,2f,2f,32a,807c2a0) at syscall2+0x1f1 Xint0x80_syscall() at Xint0x80_syscall+0x26 regards, oliver -- -------------------------------------------------------- And remember: "To Infinity And Far Beyond ... Somehow?!" email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------------------------------------- Hi! I'm a .signature virus! Copy me in your ~/.signature to help me spread! <- Save this lifeform ;-) To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message