If possible, I'd like to put in a feature request to increase the number of available tables from 256 to 65536. The IDS load balancer can actually make use of all of them. My attempts to do this to 2.6.11 and 'ip' failed miserably. 8( -- -------------------------------------------------- Jeremy M. Guthrie jeremy.guthrie@berbee.com Senior Network Engineer Phone: 608-298-1061 Berbee Fax: 608-288-3007 5520 Research Park Drive NOC: 608-298-1102 Madison, WI 53711