it took me about 2 - 3 days from knowing little on local lans to set up my small local lan using ip aliasing to to different ip's that i obtain thru cox @home cable modem service. I found little howto's on the process but pieced together what i could to get the 2 working. probabely really easy for a windows programmmer (gee i wonder why). I would imagine that there will be plenty of inquiries on the topic, as such, will be writing a small howto on the process for the next several days. -- (it took me approx. 5 days to include the nfs routing, etc) ------------ Sent from: Lattitude (deg): 32.7130 Longitude (deg): -117.1530 Altitude (ft): 410.0 GMT to Local (hrs): -8.0 (daylight savings enabled) ------------ Created with Linux-Mandrake 7.0! http://www.linux-mandrake.com/ Currently Beta Testing Mandrake Ver >7.0