"Digital Wokan" wrote: > Ah! Glad I read this before posting. In the truest sense, you do have > 6, since some people use routers for more than just routing. True enough. I wonder if they simply mean that all of the addresses will be routed on one of them, and that you can do what you will with the remaining five, so long as the router remains available to pass traffic to them. Of course, there's the debate as to whether a *firewall* should be used for more than just routing... - Bob