On Sunday 09 May 2004 01:17, david walcroft wrote: > > Thanks Scot,just what I needed and I always have the 169.254.0.0 > address it must be my ISP,I'll have to read up on subnet masks. > > david This address is from the zeroconf project which has been incorporated into the later RH Linux distributions. http://www.zeroconf.org/ Search the list archives for more commentary. Regards, Mike Klinke