Thanks guys very much for the sugestions, I apologize for taking so long to get back, pulled in 100 directions. Anyway, I tried both the time-out and bolk size reecomendations with no success. I also tried breaking them up into multiple zip files earlier, then appending them to the server. This also acting prety funky on the ftp server side so I stopped. The other end needs the file to end in one chunk so I think sending n number of puts is out. Another thing I've looked at is trapping the $SIG, and either ignoring it or pushing past it but that hasnt panned out either. All the while, when I send to other remote FreeBSD servers it works fine. I thing catching or detecting this broken pipe $SIG is going to be the key.