I upgrade to 7.1-PRERELEASE and I will see how it goes. Also today I had similar problem with nfe card (another server). The hangs are not related to the network hard, but with something else. > vr(4) had a couple of bugs in link state handling and a lot of > changes made to fix all known issue since 7.0-RELEASE. > Would you try 7.1-BETA? >