m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote: > We were hoping we could lock it down. Thanks. Use ESX, the virtual switches in ESX can have promiscuous mode disabled on them, while I suspect the uplinks from the host to the switches have it enabled, the guest VMs cannot access the wire because it's blocked at the virtual switch level. http://pubs.vmware.com/vsp40_i/server_config/t_edit_the_layer_2_security_policy_on_a_vswitch.html#1_8_10_7_10_7_1 VMware server is really just a toy, I use it myself(at home) but wouldn't use it in any situation where security or performance was important. nate