First off, thanks to those who replied re: Happy Medium (linux/windows co-existance), I guess an A/B switcher is the way to go for now. ;) I have been trying to track down a memory leak our server has had for the last few days. It started Friday when the server would crash (more accurately the kernel would kick out user-space programs because of 100% memory usage - 1 GB physical and 1.9 GB swap -- overkill, but this was an LTSP server at one point) every 2 hours or so. I figured out this weekend that the problem is only present when the network is up and our iptables nat script is run. I then used iptraf to figure out what systems might be causing problems and found that 2 systems were sending out ICMP packets. One was infected with the Welchia worm which has been taken care of and the other didn't find any viruses (Using Norton with latest definitions). I am trying to pin-point this problem, and am thinking about just blocking all ICMP packets that are outbound over NAT as a temporary fix. I'm not going to be in the office until Wednesday and need to get this up and running tomorrow morning if possible. Here is what my iptraf monitor shows: ICMP echo req (92 bytes) from 192.168.0.146 to 192.166.55.110 on eth0 ICMP echo req (92 bytes) from 208.186.160.162 to 192.166.55.110 on eth1 It repeats this one right after another, with various different destinations, all in the 192.x.x.x network. I have tried various commands such as iptables -A INPUT -p ICMP -i eth0 -j DROP, but none have blocked this. Am I missing something obvious? Thanks. Jason Pfingstmann