Evening all, marianne#ping 20.1 Type escape sequence to abort. Sending 5, 100-byte DECnet echos to atg 0 area.node 20.1, timeout is 5 seconds: !!!!! Success rate is 100 percent (5/5), round-trip min/avg/max = 468/476/488 ms Request # 6; Show Known Circuits Summary Completed Circuit State Loopback Adjacent Name Node NI-0-0 On 9.1023 $set host wopr [Attempting a connection, CTERM Connect failed - Process aborted It hates to connect to anything else...incoming connections break, too...Someone else on the list tried to debug it (I forgot who) and he found absolutely no issues that would explain this. Any ideas why it works but it doesn't? -- Cory Smelosky http://gewt.net Personal stuff http://gimme-sympathy.org Projects