In article <016701c17b8d$f4d094c0$ce7e63d5@venuswin98> you wrote: > Is this merely fortuitous or do the TCP/IP protocols state that networks > with a bigger netid must match before than networks with a smaller netid it is simple logic. Because if you sort it in any other way the second (more specific) rule is never reached and you could leave it out. Greetings Bernd - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html