Hi George Sunday, July 13, 2003, 3:30:55 PM, you wrote: G> Scott I couldn't make head nor tails of all this info. Any ideas on what it G> all means?. It looks like the IANA is collecting info for unnamed parties G> who express specific interest in the pc broadcasting to them. IANA is responsible for Internet standards. It looks like that IP address is often used by routers; do you have something like that? The IGMP that I mentioned is Internet Group Management Protocol. "The Internet Group Management Protocol (IGMP) is an Internet protocol that provides a way for an Internet computer to report its multicast group membership to adjacent routers. Multicasting allows one computer on the Internet to send content to multiple other computers that have identified themselves as interested in receiving the originating computer's content. Multicasting can be used for such applications as updating the address books of mobile computer users in the field, sending out company newsletters to a distribution list, and "broadcasting" high-bandwidth programs of streaming media to an audience that has "tuned in" by setting up a multicast group membership." --Scott. Regards, John Durham (list moderator) <http://modecideas.com/contact.html?sig> Freelists login at //www.freelists.org/cgi-bin/lsg2.cgi List archives at //www.freelists.org/archives/pchelpers PC-HELPERS list subscribe/unsub at http://modecideas.com/discuss.htm?sig Good advice is like good paint- it only works if applied.