By they way, Angela, you don't need to be running dnroute if your node is an end-node (which it seems to be). In a situation where the rest of it doesn't seem to be working properly it's only confusing the issue I suspect :) Chrissie, Am I reading this to mean that it is possible to use a Linux box as a DECnet Area Router? If so how hard is it to setup on Ubuntu? I haven't played with Linux DECnet in close to a decade. Thanks, Zane