I have a machine running 3.0.23c that has been patched to use 700 connections before running out. However, I'm still having issues with idle connections running out. I have roughly 1000 machines on the network that need to access this server (it's a printer server for the high school with ~120 printers shared through CUPS). I'm wondering how I could go about solving the idle connection issue. Should I just keep increasing the number of idle connections? I'm running Slackware 10.2 with 2.4.31 kernel. Has anyone been able to reproduce this issue? Any help would be appreciated Theodore Charles III Network Administrator -- Los Angeles Senior High _________________________________________________________________ Invite your Hotmail contacts to join your friends list with Windows Live Spaces http://clk.atdmt.com/MSN/go/msnnkwsp0070000001msn/direct/01/?href=http://spaces.live.com/spacesapi.aspx?wx_action=create&wx_url=/friends.aspx&mkt=en-us