-> -> Some reason you can't use 10.100, or any of the other RFC 1918 nets? -> Yeah. I just like to hack. ha ha.. sorry.. punchy humor. The reason is that our "chassis" is usually behind firewalls. And so our customers use the RFC 1918 nets. I know, stupid.. but I can't be guaranteed that any network address range won't be used. I think I have a start on it thou... At least I have a plan. thx. -stv - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html