Hi, can tell me somebody what that is: by using: netstat -s I receive: TcpExp: 10 packets pruned from receive queue because of socket buffer overrun 221088 packets dropped from out-of-order queue because of socket buffer overrun the problem is I cannot ping www.ibm.de but www.de.ibm.com www.ibm.de is an alias of www.de.ibm.com Thanks! ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Gerhard Possler "Wer neue Wege geht, braucht starke Partner." Westernacher AG Am Hubengut 3 76149 Karlsruhe, Germany phone: +49-721/9772-0 fax: +49-721/9772-188 http://www.westernacher.de; ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Gerhard Possler "Wer neue Wege geht, braucht starke Partner." Westernacher AG Am Hubengut 3 76149 Karlsruhe, Germany phone: +49-721/9772-0 fax: +49-721/9772-188 oder Home Office: 0931-6668106 http://www.westernacher.de