Two things:
1. After taking the two patches, ran version and am definitely getting different versions. I'll have to look into how this could be with the admins some more. Built with OpenSSL version : OpenSSL 1.0.0a 1 Jun 2010 Running on OpenSSL version : OpenSSL 0.9.8y 5 Feb 2013 (VERSIONS DIFFER!) 2. The fix for the SSL dereference looks to have solved the issue! I am no longer getting a crash and SSL seems to be handling the offload correctly without issue. Thank you so much again, I really appreciate the quick support and patience (as you can probably guess I am not the strongest Linux/C developer)! Zack