Coming in late on this: > Sounds good. Do you know of a way to obtain a MAC address without > hooking up a keyboard and monitor or opening the box? The boxes > are sealed by M&A and the warranty is voided if we open them. I've been thinking about this for quite a while before (whithout doing any coding so far, though). My idea would be to power up the machines one at a time for the inital setup period; this way, you'll always know the MAC address of the board that just came up and can assign anything you want to that at that time. No need to figure out anything externally. Konrad