johnea wrote: > tcp4 0 0 atom.60448 host154.advance.com.ar.auth > TIME_WAIT > tcp4 0 0 atom.ssh host154.advance.com.ar.37833 > TIME_WAIT Your machine is, for some reason, connecting to the ident service on the remote machine. This isn't done by default by openssh, as far as I know. Cheers, Stef