(OK, I'm all bug reports. Hate me yet?-) I installed UnitedLinux SP3, and found one little bit of a glitch. An NFS client (a RedHat 7.3 pentium) had trouble talking to the updated SLES8 Opteron system. The network chip (in an HDAMB system) is a: 02:06.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5702 Gigabit Ethernet (rev 02) Writes by the i386 system to an NFS directory on the SLES8 system tended to get stuck, with the i386 system apparently sending tons of fragments that the SLES8 system was rejecting. (Unfortunately, I didn't save a tcpdump log.) Revering to k_smp-2.4.19-256 fixed the problem and that is where I set now. -- Steve Williams "The woods are lovely, dark and deep. steve at icarus.com But I have promises to keep, http://www.icarus.com and lines to code before I sleep, http://www.picturel.com And lines to code before I sleep."