On 06/07/2012 04:40 AM, Mark Benson wrote: 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. Ahh, we are talking about different things. I'm using a Cisco 7206VXR as my DECnet router, but when I'm at my desk, I'm sitting in front of this computer right here, and I ssh/telnet/dnlogin/llogin from here. I'm talking about having direct DECnet support from here. Of course I could just bring up a virtual machine on the VMware host down in the racks, but then I'd have to hop through that...not difficult at all, but still very "unclean" to me. It's just anal-retentive perfectionism, nothing more, no REAL impact, no REAL casualties...but it makes me sleep better at night, and I can usually achieve it pretty much everywhere else. :) -Dave -- Dave McGuire, AK4HZ New Kensington, PA