On Fri, 2006-03-17 at 16:13 -0500, James Pifer wrote: > I guess what doesn't make much sense is that one way the communication > seems very good, while the other direction it does not. Stating the obvious: Have you checked that your network cable is fine? The usual 10/100 Mb/s STP/UTP cabling has a pair for data in one direction and another pair for data going in the other way. It's possible for a bad cable to be fine in transmission, but rotten in reception, and vice versa. -- Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.