On 7 Jun 2012, at 08:33, Dave McGuire <mcguire at neurotica.com> Traffic. My main desktop machine sits on a busy network, and I am uncomfortable with the notion of it sitting in promiscuous mode. Remember that I also do all of my work (meaning "make money for food" work) on this system. Hence my proposal to use a dedicated low-cost platform to perform the work instead. I like you feel uncomfortable having my main computers wide open so I don't run it on my Mac Pro, MacBook or games PC. I have an old dual PIII for Windows stuff and a HP Microserver and (soon to be numerous) Raspberry Pi for Linux and a Atom D410 for NetBSD. -- Mark Benson http://markbenson.org/blog http://twitter.com/MDBenson