Hello, As far as I can see from the source, there is no other way to end the connection to a remote object than through a raised exception. Of course, most of the time this will be a connect error because the client just disconnects, but using ethereal I can see that the server still writes a complete backtrace to the socket. Wouldn't it be desirable to have a more elegant way of disconnecting, or is there one that I just didn't see ? This is drb-2.0.4. Cheers, Han Holl