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If the ops are heading toward the above-described convention, would it not be cool if the router vendors made it the default? Paradigm shifts can happen anytime. Best to make it user-definable. :-)

User-defined paradigm shifts. I bet that is what the Loony Sociopaths for Demagoguery (acronym intended) are trying to achieve on a number of these lists. I suspect it may require more experienced and rational users. One shifts paradgms with experience and consensus, not volume. randy