John, JCK> but the only realistic solution for someone who needs high JCK> reliability in that environment is multihoming, and there seems JCK> to be no hope for multihoming of small-scale networks with IPv4. There is not much of a solution, today, for either IPv4 _or_ IPv6. However there are nearly 10 different proposals under consideration in the IETF, to deal with multihoming. Few are restricted to IPv4. In other words, when there is a serious solution to multihoming -- ie, being able to preserve a connection when using more than one IP Address -- it will likely work for IPv4. Most of these proposals are quite new. No more than a year old and many less than 6 months. This does not speak well for anything happening immediately, of course. However quite a number of the proposals do not require any significant infrastructure change. This bodes well for rapid deployment, once they make it through the standards process. On the other hand, getting the IETF to produce standards track specifications out of this large pack of candidates could take another 10 years... d/ -- Dave Crocker <dcrocker-at-brandenburg-dot-com> Brandenburg InternetWorking <www.brandenburg.com> Sunnyvale, CA USA <tel:+1.408.246.8253>