> To make an attemp in answering your question, in > most p2p apps there is a way > to restrict the number of open connections. What's > the program you are having > trouble with? If there is such an option there will be no trouble in the first place. :-) Mldonkey bittorrent plugin has no respect on max inbound nor outbound connection setting. So when the torrent is very popular hundreds of connections will be spawned, till my cheap home router's NAT table is overflowed and start trashing. Effectively DoS my home network. Quite a lot of buggy network applics seems to spawn too many connections and cause trouble as well. It would be nice if there is a generic way to restrict the connections they can open. __________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? http://bb.yahoo.co.jp/