It was thus said that the Great Dave McGuire once stated: Just make sure you don't duplicate MAC addresses. That's the only real issue. Oh, and if you get more Suns, make sure you check their MAC addresses for possible conflicts. Alternatively, you CAN assign your own MAC addresses. MAC addresses have the following structure: +------------ Vendor ID | -------------+-------------- [********][********][********][********][********][********] ^^ -------------+-------------- || | || +--- assigned by vendor || |+----------- Group/Individual bit (used for multicast) | +------------ Global/Local bit (0 - vendor ID, 1 - locally assigned) As long as the Global/Local bit is set, you can use any values you want for the MAC address (again, as long as they don't conflict). -spc (This is Ethernet---it's older than 10 years---it's on topic 8-)

Ok Dave, thanks. OBOffTopic: I went to the local mom & pop computer store to pick up some cables I needed for the SS1. I also needed an ethernet transciever. When I asked the PFY behind the counter for one, I got a blank look and "huh?" for my trouble. I tried again, "I need an AUI to 10BaseT converter." His witty response was of course, "Huh?". *sigh* "Look, it's a little box about 2 inches long, an inch wide and has an RJ45 jack on one end and a male joystick connector on the other." After yet another blank look, I gave up. I'll get one from someplace else. I may bring it back along with a DEC vampire tap and show him what they used in "olden times". Ye gods. g.