We used to use that id back at IBM for internal lans back in the 1980s. Thought it was still a no public addr.

Re win2k, reason I posted here was after bashing my head on a wall trying to get route to make sense on the win2k machines.

Perhaps Greg's advice re using the Linux box to route is the best. Linux routing is easier to get working.

The Buffalo AirStation wi-fi lan is a nice little box to use - is made by MELCO (Mitsubishi Electric Coy) an guessing ti runs Linux (if not then it must be bsd Unix). Is configured thru web pages. Comes out of the box with a preset ip but one can change just about ecery aspect of its routing & filtering & dhcp allocations etc:. It will support up to 254 devices so the model I have that also has 4 utp ports can be cascaded to quite a size.

Anyway, thanks both of you for the pointers

Cheers

Doug