Once upon a time there was a proposal for a protocol which allowed clients to push a filter configuration to the edge router to both classify traffic and filter unneeded things.
Nice idea. I am sure clients will figure that out. As quickly as they caught on to 'Windows Update' and 'Setting up a VCR clock'. Lets face it: Some things are better left to the "experts". -- -------------------------------------------------------------- Johannes Ullrich jullrich@euclidian.com pgp key: http://johannes.homepc.org/PGPKEYS -------------------------------------------------------------- "We regret to inform you that we do not enable any of the security functions within the routers that we install." support@covad.net --------------------------------------------------------------