People are working on an alternate scheme using policy based routing, the main impetus is for mobile ipv6 as such a mechanism fits into that nicely. The USAGI project and others should comment on this as they know the state of this work better than I do. That's why your work isn't being responded to, the people knowledgable just haven't had a chance. - : 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