This problem started a week ago with a modified kernel with IP-firewalling, IP-aliasing & IRLPT enabled.

Oh, good, then it's not my editor. Because I didn't implement anything special in upload.exe until yesterday. Prior to yesterday, upload.exe was just a port of download.c with different text messages. All I've added in the last couple of days is the soft rebooting stuff, and if my guess is correct, it's only giving us a chance to see the problem, rather than being the cause of it.

If there's something about upload.exe that caused the problem, then download.c would have caused it as well, I think...

Hopefully Mike will be able to help me clear this up tomorrow.

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Tony Fabris