John R Pierce wrote: > its part of multimedia home network plug and play, I believe... lets > media boxes find media servers, and such. if you were to serve up > streaming media on a home network, it would be a useful thing to have. > otherwise? meh. Could you give a concrete example of such a setup, please? I must admit I'm rather confused by UPnP. Is it intended for devices that don't have an IP address? Or how does it fit in with dhcpd? -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College Dublin