I came across an article online describing how to simulate the internet using a bunch of virtualmachines doing different tasks. I think it had ntp dns, bsd based. But cant seem to locate it anymore. Does anyone know the article / guide I am talking about ? dunno what it sis, but it sounds interesting. in the late 90s i played with setting heaps of random services. some of them seemed more daunting than others, like ppp dialin with mgetty. which actually wasn't as bad as it first seemed found it http://www.projreality.com/virtualinternet/ lol mercutio. When I was younger and went to work with my mom or dad, I'd dial back home to my Linux box :) heh i never really went back into my box i've got a friend who did from work a lot via ssh who shared dialup with he was always transferring files at like 1k/sec so that it didn't congest the link'