Benedict Verheyen wrote: <snip> I had a bridge up on that host as i was using UML. However, I was in the process of moving my UML's to vservers and so i didn't need the bridge anymore. After i removed the bridge, the networking was fast again. Don't know why that gave problems with certain kernels but it did. Weird. Regards, Benedict -- Benedict Verheyen Debian User http://www.heimdallit.be Public Key 0x712CBB8D