Hello all, I had asked this question a few months ago... evidently some of the HotMail smtp servers are not sending back the final "close connection" command, and when I do a netstat -a the LAST_ACK's from hotmail are filling up the list, effectivly blocking that port for future use. Has anyone got a solution? My kernel version is 2.0.36.. would a new kernel help? Paul D. Farber II Farber Technology Ph. 570-628-5303 Fax 570-628-5545 [EMAIL PROTECTED]