I haven't been able to reach anyone with clue at Cox to resolve this, but over the last two days we have seen breakage of applications requiring UDP reported by Cox cable modem customers. ICMP ping also fails but web surfing works. Was a huge problem yesterday, came back for some customers but some are still affected. Most of our affected customers are in Santa Barbara. SIP and VPN customers are the most obviously affected. -- Jay Hennigan - CCIE #7880 - Network Engineering - jay@impulse.net Impulse Internet Service - http://www.impulse.net/ Your local telephone and internet company - 805 884-6323 - WB6RDV