In article <21146 at unix.cis.pitt.edu> cmf at obie.cis.pitt.edu (Carl M. Fongheiser) writes: : Yep, and if you do "netstat -in", you won't even need to run ifconfig, : since netstat will print out the address without turning it into a name. Truncated for your convenience to 12 chars. Larry Wall lwall at jpl-devvax.jpl.nasa.gov