Folks, shit happened and my old hard-drive was whipped containing my old ipsec pktgen patches. I am now trying to recover them. Luckily, this one patch i sent on email - so it was an easy recovery. I know James and Herbert had both commented in the past on this patch. Please look at it again and see if i am missing something we agreed on. Herbert, I cant see any easier way to do the SAD lookup. If you have suggestions please shoot. I am shooting for this to go in when 2.6.23 opens up. cheers, jamal