And after lots of digging and rebooting it does end up being a hardware fault that is causing a problem. This is going to take some extra work and maintentance. While this is being worked on, we will leave BGP (external routing protocol) inactive on this router. The hardware fault is one of the storage devices in the routing engine component is going bad and that is causing the router to reboot and creating these service interruptions. One of us will send out more updates as we continue working a solution. Support can be reached Monday thru Friday from 8:00am until 8:00pm via phone at 612-337-6340, or via email at [log in to unmask] -- Mike Horwath ipHouse - Welcome home! [log in to unmask] The universe is an island, surrounded by whatever it is that surrounds universes. - Berkeley Fortune