Hiya, in my day job as a router freak, I ran across this: http://www.cisco.com/univercd/cc/td/doc/product/software/ios121/121cgcr/secur_c/scprt3/scdpam.htm Bottom line: For Cisco, PAM means "Port to Application Mapping". *sigh* Yet another acronym. I hope we won't get any weird questions on this list about that :) Regards -- Ingo Luetkebohle / ingo@blank.pages.de / 95428014 / |PraxisXML Open Source contact; Computational Linguistics |student; Fargonauten.DE sysadmin; Gimp Registry (not-)maintainer;