hi, i just happened to see bird crash right under my hands. the last thing in the log, before it went down, is this, many times around: 12-09-2005 14:04:30 <ERR> No suitable password found for authentication 12-09-2005 14:04:31 <ERR> Bad OSPF packet from 212.71.177.42 - authentification failed 12-09-2005 14:04:31 <ERR> Bad OSPF packet from 212.71.177.46 - authentification failed 12-09-2005 14:04:33 <ERR> Bad OSPF packet from 212.71.177.44 - authentification failed 12-09-2005 14:04:40 <ERR> No suitable password found for authentication 12-09-2005 14:04:41 <ERR> Bad OSPF packet from 212.71.177.46 - authentification failed 12-09-2005 14:04:41 <ERR> Bad OSPF packet from 212.71.177.42 - authentification failed 12-09-2005 14:04:43 <ERR> Bad OSPF packet from 212.71.177.44 - authentification failed 12-09-2005 14:04:50 <ERR> No suitable password found for authentication 12-09-2005 14:04:51 <ERR> Bad OSPF packet from 212.71.177.42 - authentification failed 12-09-2005 14:04:51 <ERR> Bad OSPF packet from 212.71.177.46 - authentification failed 12-09-2005 14:04:53 <ERR> Bad OSPF packet from 212.71.177.44 - authentification failed after i started bird again, everything was alright. anyone got similar problem? mk -- Zákon Smithův: Žádný opravdový problém se nedá vyřešit. -- Murphy