I have a known issue with MySQL on 7.0 but that is seemingly unresolved. There are two reasons why I am asking here. The first is that all indications of searching for an answer suggest it is a network related issue (although both the client and server are on the same machine). Second, I've never personally ran into this issue previously so I'm wondering if it's 7.0 related. Can someone advise if one of the NIC drivers listed below could potentially be part of the issue? If not, any other ideas would be greatly appreciated! Info: Error: 071029 8:42:59 [Warning] Aborted connection 1 to db: 'vpopmail' user: 'vpopmail' host: 'localhost' (Got an error reading communication packets) Entire disk is GELI encrypted, and ULE scheduler is being used. mail4# uname -a FreeBSD mail4.ibctech.ca 7.0-BETA1 FreeBSD 7.0-BETA1 #1: Thu Oct 25 11:58:24 UTC 2007 root@:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GELI i386 mail4# ifconfig re0: flags=8802<BROADCAST,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500 status: no carrier de0: flags=8802<BROADCAST,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500 ether 00:c0:f0:30:b4:1f media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX <full-duplex>) status: active fxp0: flags=8802<BROADCAST,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500 status: no carrier fxp1: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500 options=b<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU> ether 00:0e:0c:6c:e9:63 inet 208.70.104.102 netmask 0xffffff80 broadcast 208.70.104.127 media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX <full-duplex>) status: active rl0: flags=8802<BROADCAST,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500 status: no carrier lo0: flags=8049<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 16384 inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x6 inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128 inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000 MySQL version 5.0.27