I think I see something funny going on. It looks as though your Linux host is listening on eth1: NCP>tell 2.17 show exec Node Volatile Summary as of 1-NOV-2009 13:05:01 Executor node = 2.16 (SKETTI) Circuit = eth0 State = on Identification = DECnet for Linux V2.6.31-14-generic on x86_64 2.16 shouldn't have answered for your Alpha system. --Marc