Thanks to everyone who responded. I'll look at it more when I get back from LA. But it sounds like something I really need to check into. BTW: I'm running Linux v4.1 via RedHat on a PC. I haven't done it yet, but I'm looking into using Ethernet and this sounds like just the ticket to do that. :-) ***** Want to unsubscribe from this list? ***** Send mail with body "unsubscribe" to mac-perl-request@iis.ee.ethz.ch