welcome to nanog, scott. while your question actually contained more technical, networking related material than most anything posted here, you'll get blasted for it none the less. see, most people here just magically aquired all this useful information and never had to ask anyone for help. now if you'd asked about the weather, or posted a note about how much you hate spam, or better yet why spam is ok, that seems to be relevant to nanog, or maybe michael dillon's physical build, or his karate belts, or... well you get the point. it's safe to post to nanog once you've read the charter, lurked for 12 months, absorbed each individual's variation of what's ok to post and what's not.... actually, forget it, buy a book. -brett