First of all, a crossover cable works just fine, provided you make it decently. Leave full-duplex and auto-sensing on. I had similar weirdness with a Win95b client (with DUN 1.3 installed) and a 486-33 RH 6.0 box running samba. Turns out that I nuked TCP/IP and reinstalled, and it is back up to where I think it ought to be, around 300 K/sec. -- Edward Schernau http://www.schernau.com Network Architect mailto:ed@schernau.com Rational Computing Providence, RI, USA