According to Bill Plunkett: While burning my CPU. > > > And thanks Richard, for your advice on the nettools. I looked and > found 1.45 (I also got the source for 1.47, but had minor problems > compiling and decided that 1.45 would be good enuf). It had always > been a source of confusion to me: which patches and tools to use > with which kernel. One thing I think I have straight now is that > there are no compatibility issues with nettools (I think); in > general: the newer, the better. Well i should have considered the fact that you have a reacent version of slackware installed, which should have a higher version of net-tools than 1.33, anyway things seem to have turned out ok, sorry if i was in any way misleading. BTW: Kernel 2.0.36 has just been released. ;-) > > So far, things seem to be running smoothly. Thanks again.... > > -Bill (n2zly) > -- Regards Richard. [EMAIL PROTECTED]