Tim wrote: > Pick a different port, yet again. Pick something like eighty-thousand, > it's unlikely to be blocked, nor be found so easily be nosey parkers > probing your ports. Well, it's unlikely to be blocked, all right, but I don't think it will work: RFC 793 specifies ports as being 16 bits, which means the highest port number is 65535. Hope this helps, James. -- E-mail address: james | Dalek invasion at work today. I plugged them into the @westexe.demon.co.uk | net: they behave better than some Windows boxes. They | make great spam filters: "Enlarge your..." "EX - TER - | MI - NATE!" All in a day's work for a sysadmin...