On 7 Mar 2005, jamal wrote: > Does using 127.x help you because you assume _nobody_ else would be using > 127.x addresses? Since he wants to use this for box-internal communication, I think he is definately on the right track with using 127/8. Zyxel does the same thing on some of their chassis, The management board is 127.0.0.100 (I think) and the linecards are 127.0.0.100+slotnumber. -- Mikael Abrahamsson email: swmike@xxxxxxxxx - : 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