> uh-huh. 40,000 web servers? exactly how much traffic are you pushing > here? page counts? byte counts? i dont believe for a femtosecond that > bang:buck netras dont whup your mainframes ass. And the X1 is only $1k or since they are IDE based, with no PCI slot, do they not count? S. -- Steven Hill Systems Administrator www.matrixnetsystems.com