Hello everyone, I realize that VMS 7.2 doesn't meet the 10 year rule but the hardware it is running on does :-) To "close the loop" on this one, Zane pointed me to a recent fix posted by Compaq on their support site for TCPIP V5.0A. This update fixes a bunch of different bugs. My bug was the Telnet server went berserk when I tried to connect to it. The problem is in the WILL/WANT negotiation that goes on gets screwed and ends up looping infinitely. You can fix this by installing the TCPIP$TNDRIVER.EXE and TCPIP$TELNET.EXE images from the fix on top of an existing TCPIP 5.0 installation. --Chuck