Just read my post again. Forgot to add the vital part. That will teach me for posting when I'm so tired!

Not only does my windows machine hang but so too does my FreeBSD gateway. So I've got two machines that freeze. I reset my win98 machine and then try to ssh into the FreeBSD box only to find that it has locked up too and I have to reset it.

Could this be related to the fact that I have a permenant ppp connection running?

Sorry for the half info in the original post.