Anyone know what this is telling me? I finally found maybe a clue. Once my connection has dropped for a bit, this line gets written to /usr/adm/debug ppp_tty_write: sleeping Is this significant to my woes? Casey -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to debian-user-request@lists.debian.org . Trouble? e-mail to templin@bucknell.edu .