This is an interesting twist that seems to validate a comment I made at one of the regional techs meetings. It is not sufficent to have the "backbone" providers CIDR capable, what is required is to have the regionals be cidr capable. So here's the plan. Invite everyone who has received a cidr block to turn in an announcement request for the cidr block to your provider. It won't hurt and will get us to the next step. You don't have to do much. - Turn in the NACR You don't have a vlsm-capable IGP deployed? Not to worry. Nail up a static route for the aggregate. This seems to work just fine if you are stuck w/ cisco IGRP. With RIP based nets, a few more statics will do the trick. Then its time to get to work on a local transition plan to a real IGP, like.... IISIS! -- Regards, Bill Manning