Yes, I am only talking about just one firewall machine that is doing all the routing, so I'm not sure how what you have suggest helps. Unless what you are saying is "NO, you can't do that" to what I asked, and that what I want to do effects 1 machine at a time and not everything that is marked. You didn't really answer the question, just talk about alternatives, which doesn't help me understand how the --limit works. Don't mean to sound ranting, just want to understand so I need to have questions answered before getting other suggestions... Dan On Thu, 2001-12-20 at 00:07, Jim Fleming wrote: > You are talking about marks which have to stay in one machine. > It seems more general to have marks that can travel on your network. >