Sean Donelan writes: }Will people please stop asking this question, it seems to put a jinx }on the net. Everytime it gets asked, some major provider kills their }network for a day, giving the answer to the question. It's not just the multihoming question - I think this entire mailing list is cursed in general. For example, one day after the UPS/generator discussion died down a week or so ago, my 36kVA UPS powering all of my central routers, ATM switches, hubs, DNS servers, network management systems, and so forth blew up (and I've got the charred components sitting behind me to prove it - it started off as a fairly routine inverter failure, but the repair people suggested that we try turning it back on, at which point the rectifier failed and the main capacitors started busting their seals). We were fortunate in that the unit flipped to bypass quickly enough that we didn't lose power to any equipment, and we didn't have any power failures during the three day period it took the repairmen to restore the unit to normal operation. Jeff -- Jeffrey S. Curtis | Internetwork Manager Argonne National Laboratory | Email: curtis@anl.gov 9700 South Cass Avenue, ECT-221 | Voice: 630/252-1789 Argonne, IL 60439 | Fax: 630/252-9689