Wow, I was typing a response to you earlier this morning when my display went off and my pc case started to smoke. My good ol ECS K7S5A mobo apparently had a component failure and fried out. Lucky for me I was at the computer at the time and was able to pull the plug before my PCI cards, HD and DDR memory before it could get fried with the mobo. 12 hours later and I'm finally able to use my pc again. At least it wasn't Monday. Anyway back on topic. I never bought the Qwest explanation. The Nokia DSLAM's that Covad uses allow for different interleave levels and also for no interleave at all, which is known as fast path. I find hard to believe that Cisco would lock the interleave settings. Not that I have to worry about that anymore. -- Jose A. Hernandez jhboricua at jhboricua.org rsync://rsync.jhboricua.org/gentoo-portage/