diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index ef3f33a..265493d 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -134,6 +134,6 @@ XLX Server requires the following ports to be open and forwarded properly for in
 
 Pay attention, the XLX Server acts as an YSF Master, which provides 26 wires-x rooms.
 It has nothing to do with the regular YSFReflector network, hence you don’t need to register your XLX at ysfreflector.de !
-
+Nevertheless it is possible.
 
 © 2016 Jean-Luc Deltombe (LX3JL) and Luc Engelmann (LX1IQ)
diff --git a/scripts/scripts.readme.txt b/scripts/scripts.readme.txt
index 4008da3..86bb307 100644
--- a/scripts/scripts.readme.txt
+++ b/scripts/scripts.readme.txt
@@ -1,11 +1,10 @@
 *************************************************
-*copy xlxd into /etc.init.d/
-*copy ambed.service into /etc/systemd/system/
-*
+*copy xlxd to /etc.init.d/
+*copy ambed.service to /etc/systemd/system/
+*copy watchdog to /ambed/
 *************************************************
 * xlxd executable must be in /xlxd/ folder
 * ambed executable must be in /ambed/ folder
-*
 *************************************************
 * possible options:
 *
@@ -18,3 +17,10 @@
 * #systemctl enable ambed
 *
 *************************************************
+* If your usb port gets unresponsive and you get some persistent timeouts,
+* the watchdog script restarts the ambed service.
+* You can run it every 5 minutes by a cronjob.
+* 
+* */5 * * * * /ambed/./watchdog >> /ambed/watchdog.log
+*
+***************************************************
diff --git a/scripts/watchdog b/scripts/watchdog
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..4582bf0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/watchdog
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+sleep 5
+PATTERN=timed
+FILE=/var/log/syslog
+if grep -q $PATTERN $FILE;
+  then
+      echo "ambed timeout error"
+      > /var/log/syslog
+      service ambed restart
+  else
+      echo "all ok"
+      echo "Exiting..."
+      exit 0
+fi
diff --git a/src/cprotocol.cpp b/src/cprotocol.cpp
index 7fd4967..12661eb 100644
--- a/src/cprotocol.cpp
+++ b/src/cprotocol.cpp
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@
 //    GNU General Public License for more details.
 //
 //    You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
-//    along with Foobar.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. 
+//    along with Foobar.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
 // ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
 #include "main.h"
@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ CProtocol::~CProtocol()
         m_pThread->join();
         delete m_pThread;
     }
-    
+
     // empty queue
     m_Queue.Lock();
     while ( !m_Queue.empty() )
@@ -69,13 +69,13 @@ bool CProtocol::Init(void)
 {
     // init reflector apparent callsign
     m_ReflectorCallsign = g_Reflector.GetCallsign();
-    
+
     // reset stop flag
     m_bStopThread = false;
 
     // start  thread;
     m_pThread = new std::thread(CProtocol::Thread, this);
-    
+
     // done
     return true;
 }
@@ -138,7 +138,12 @@ void CProtocol::OnDvFramePacketIn(CDvFramePacket *Frame, const CIp *Ip)
 {
     // find the stream
     CPacketStream *stream = GetStream(Frame->GetStreamId(), Ip);
-    if ( stream != NULL )
+    if ( stream == NULL )
+	{
+		std::cout << "Deleting oprhaned Frame Packet with StreamId " << Frame->GetStreamId() << " from " << *Ip << std::endl;
+		delete Frame;
+	}
+	else
     {
         //std::cout << "DV frame" << "from "  << *Ip << std::endl;
         // and push
@@ -152,13 +157,18 @@ void CProtocol::OnDvLastFramePacketIn(CDvLastFramePacket *Frame, const CIp *Ip)
 {
     // find the stream
     CPacketStream *stream = GetStream(Frame->GetStreamId(), Ip);
-    if ( stream != NULL )
+    if ( stream == NULL )
+ 	{
+		std::cout << "Deleting oprhaned Last Frame Packet with StreamId " << Frame->GetStreamId() << " from " << *Ip << std::endl;
+		delete Frame;
+	}
+	else
     {
         // push
         stream->Lock();
         stream->Push(Frame);
         stream->Unlock();
-        
+
         // and close the stream
         g_Reflector.CloseStream(stream);
     }
@@ -170,7 +180,7 @@ void CProtocol::OnDvLastFramePacketIn(CDvLastFramePacket *Frame, const CIp *Ip)
 CPacketStream *CProtocol::GetStream(uint16 uiStreamId, const CIp *Ip)
 {
     CPacketStream *stream = NULL;
-    
+
     // find if we have a stream with same streamid in our cache
     for ( int i = 0; (i < m_Streams.size()) && (stream == NULL); i++ )
     {
@@ -256,5 +266,3 @@ uint32 CProtocol::ModuleToDmrDestId(char m) const
 {
     return (uint32)(m - 'A')+1;
 }
-
-