Hi, i can not ping broadcast or network addresses: getting return code -1: permission denied. i thought it was me (my setup) but yesterday my coworker did a new install of 6.1 and he was not able to ping these addresses either. Moreover, there is another bad problem with "ping": sometimes (when i ping some real address including localhost) it pings only once then hangs indefinitely. When i ^C it reports that 1 packet was transmitted and 1 packet recieved 0% packet loss. other communications are quite well. kernel is 2.2.12 if it is relevant, but i started seeing it since 2.2.x help requested, -alexm