Do you use 'dmessage'. I tried that but after I did I got a bunch of lines which filled the buffer that said: DROPPED IN= OUT=eth0 (etc) Which a fellow PLUGer said was my ethernet alerting the world that it was there. Hey, I just thought of a way to fix it. If it is alerting the world it is there it must do so because it isn't communicating with anything. If I were to ping it every..... minute it probably would stop it. Well, upon testing the theory that has been proven to be wrong. (tested by pinging the interface) Weird thing happened: right before I typed in the 'ping ' command it gave me a DROPPED IN= OUT=ppp0 ... SRC=67.41.211.234 DST=67.224.21.226 <- This is ppp0s ipaddress Does this indicate someone pinged me or something like that? -- <:-)Mike(-:> This message has been scanned for viruses by the VEI Internet Automatic Email Spam and Virus Scanner, and is believed to be free of spam or viruses. Please report spam to spamtrap@vei.net. If you would like 98.9 % spam blocked from your E-mail then go to VEI Internet for details. Anti-spam/Anti-virus is FREE with every account. http://www.vei.net/ mailtospamtrap@vei.net --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss