I've been experiencing reproducible errors since I've upgrade my Fedora Core 1 to version 2 a couple of days ago. The problem is this: any time a TCP connection is opened, it fails on the first attempt. The second and successive attempts go through without any problems - at least for a while. After a certain time period has elapsed, the same destination seems to suffer from the same problem once again only on the first connection. At first I thought it might be a DNS problem, or a firewall problem, but when querying domain name which certainly aren't in a cache, there seems to be no problem. Deactiving the firewall doesn't resolve the issue either. My hardware: PIII 600MHz with 512MB ECC RAM, Asus P3B-F motherboard (BX chipset), Intel Pro/100+ network card. Any suggestions on how to further investigate (or fix) this? If all else fails I'll try a clean install. Thanks, Bob Deblier