Okay, I'll try and do this as best I can from the REPORTING-BUGS file, I can't post any Oops information or anything, because it's not a fatal problem. Last week, I replaced an HD in my machine, to make life easier copying things over, I made it /dev/hdc (to replace /dev/hdb) and made it reiserfs, since this point, timing on my machine has gone out the window, if I have a clock on screen at any time, once in a while I can see the minute digits going up and down, I'm getting *negative* ping times when doing traceroutes and things, an nmap downright refuses to do anything due to it I've tried moving the drive to being secondary on the first channel, and disabling the 2nd IDE channel, but to no avail, the same problem still happsn examples of these traceroute from my machine to www.sgi.com traceroute to www.sgi.com (216.32.174.155), 30 hops max, 38 byte packets 1 194.130.12.126 0.360 ms 0.349 ms 0.264 ms 2 194.130.14.200 -1.196 ms 1.202 ms 1.152 ms 3 158.43.231.4 1.291 ms 1.081 ms 1.086 ms 4 158.43.229.2 1.442 ms 1.300 ms 1.387 ms 5 158.43.254.5 11.348 ms 10.438 ms 10.928 ms 6 158.43.253.85 17.719 ms 15.862 ms 13593.196 ms 7 158.43.254.242 -13558.366 ms 17.898 ms 19.462 ms 8 158.43.254.138 13610.568 ms -13575.933 ms 13622.115 ms 9 158.43.254.102 -13580.373 ms 13633.611 ms -13594.861 ms 10 158.43.150.98 13641.817 ms 24.509 ms 22.838 ms 11 146.188.15.33 -13612.859 ms 13660.370 ms -13622.886 ms 12 146.188.15.50 89.162 ms 89.650 ms 89.557 ms 13 152.63.23.61 13827.715 ms -13645.459 ms 89.359 ms 14 152.63.15.185 13899.914 ms -13715.589 ms 90.849 ms 15 152.63.21.121 93.317 ms 13990.084 ms -13806.116 ms 16 152.63.24.133 14036.214 ms -13851.295 ms 93.566 ms 17 157.130.60.98 99.936 ms 14134.792 ms -13943.983 ms 18 216.32.223.129 91.871 ms 95.679 ms 92.265 ms 19 209.185.249.214 98.350 ms 100.625 ms 97.005 ms 20 216.32.173.85 174.472 ms 177.885 ms 174.619 ms 21 216.33.153.68 175.279 ms 174.430 ms 174.089 ms 22 216.33.152.115 174.455 ms 177.037 ms -14382.650 ms 23 216.32.174.155 173.624 ms 172.421 ms 175.609 ms trying to nmap between one of my machines and another Starting nmap V. 2.12 by Fyodor ([EMAIL PROTECTED], www.insecure.org/nmap/) Serious time computation problem in adjust_timeout ... end = (988026829, 608142) sent=(988026829,608908) delta = -768 srtt = -94 rttvar = 858 to = 75000 QUITTING! output of ver_linux -- Versions installed: (if some fields are empty or looks -- unusual then possibly you have very old versions) Linux pisces 2.4.2 #1 SMP Sun Apr 22 03:49:58 BST 2001 i686 unknown Kernel modules 2.4.2 Gnu C 2.95.2 Binutils 2.9.5.0.37 Linux C Library .. Dynamic Linker (ld.so) 1.9.11 ls: /usr/lib/libg++.so: No such file or directory Procps 2.0.6 Mount 2.10s Net-tools (1999-04-20) Kbd 0.99 Sh-utils 2.0 Sh-utils Parker. Sh-utils Sh-utils Inc. Sh-utils NO Sh-utils PURPOSE. hopefully this will help someone, or help someone to help me :) Thanks -- -Barry Hughes my parents made me what I am today .. I'm thinking of suing http://bazza.com/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/