uncutstone wu wrote: > I am writing a program which brute force scans a large group of IP > addresses to find ftp servers. Most of the ip addresses cannot be > connected. After cetain number of connection tries, the socket gets > broken. > > How can I work around to this since it maybe a bug in the platform? Maybe you could talk to the TCP socket at a lower protocol level than connect, using raw IP packets. The source of nmap might be helpful. (I've no idea whether win98 supports raw sockets, though...) -- vjoel : Joel VanderWerf : path berkeley edu : 510 665 3407