In article <alpine.LRH.0.9999.0709202012480.12238 at hogwarts.egr.duke.edu>, Joshua Baker-LePain <jlb17 at duke.edu> wrote: > On Thu, 20 Sep 2007 at 5:04pm, semi linux wrote > > > Wicked! that worked... How weird... I'm going to have to look this up > > and read about it... it seems weird that the kernel would have it on > > by default if it's as common as it seems to me. > > > > Thanks a million! > > > > You don't happen to have any links of where you found this, do you? > > Here's one: > > http://lwn.net/Articles/92727/ > > Bottom line is that the behavior is a result of broken routers, and the > kernel leaves it enabled because it *should* work. Would be interesting to know what make/model of router the original poster is using, that exhibited this problem, and which firmware version. Unless the problem is in his ISP.... Cheers Tony -- Tony Mountifield Work: tony at softins.co.uk - http://www.softins.co.uk Play: tony at mountifield.org - http://tony.mountifield.org