What do you mean you're not able to get bearshare to answer? You mean that you've tried sending the same data I just showed and you get no answer with bearshare?

In that case, it's weird, because I'm doing AFAIK exactly what RFC says you should do!

I noticed, sometimes I get a PING from the SERVER before I perform the search, in that case I send a PONG backl. Would you like to see that part too?

cheers