acctually, the VMware box is a debian-box, but yes, updated and so on.The system running VMware is w/sp1 with all updates. I will try to pinpoint what's acctually causing it. One other trend I've been seeing when searching is that my router - ipcop has been involved in most of the cases.
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as long as it works - why fix it?
If it doesn't work - kix-it!