I tried to start downloading without squid working. I started downloading something big(Mozilla 0.7) to see what happends. The transfer hanged, but this time, it did not take the rest of the system with it. the system functioned just fine, but it did not recieve nor transmitted in/from the eth0 device(even ping didn't work). The greed LED in both the hub and the NIC suggested that the connection was just fine. ifconfig eth0 down ifconfig eth0 up brought the host back to the net, so it seems the NIC driver has to do with the hangs somehow (and indeed, the boot message suggest something which has to do with "receiver lock-up bug workaround"). Idan - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/