Giulio Morgan wrote: <snip>
> Any thoughts will be much appreciated. Also, one trivial question, what is the > easiest way for me to determine my ip address. If you install the ipmasq package it has a very nice script called ipofif which does some regexp stuff to the output of ifconfig and leaves you with your ip address(es). If you don't really want ipmasq installed, you could always install the package, copy ipofif someplace else then remove the package... HTH, Gareth -- Gareth Bowker | [EMAIL PROTECTED] PhD Research Student | http://users.aber.ac.uk/tgb96/ Space Robotics Team | Office: (01970) 621528 University of Wales, Aberystwyth | Mobile: (07971) 219986