FreeBSD uses something called 'dummynet' that allows traffic shaping & bandwidth management. Anything like this in Linux? http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=dummynet&sektion=4 HTH sj --- Steve Jenkin, Unix Sys Admin 0412 786 915 (+61 412 786 915) PO Box 48, Kippax ACT 2615, AUSTRALIA