On Thu, 16 Jan 2014, Bob Armstrong wrote: Multinet is horribly unreliable because it is based on a fundamentally defective protocol design. Really ? I've been using it for years and haven't noticed this. The HECnet bridge, OTOH, crashes regularly. It doesn't seem to recover gracefully from network hiccups. Don't have a Cisco, so I can't comment on that. My cisco gear (aside from the fact tunnel connect operations can be blocking at times...) run fine! Bob -- Cory Smelosky http://gewt.net Personal stuff http://gimme-sympathy.org Projects