The "descriptive naming" thing was something I thought should be available when creating MAC lists on these types of products because I was finding myself wiith a bucket-load of MAC addresses and not remembering which belonged to which computer. Today i was surprised to see it implemented in the USR. It's basically just a text field where you can give each machine an alphanumeric name (whose only purpose is for identification in the router's config menus - lets you tell what machine the MAC actually belongs to).

I did some research and came up with the Linksys as well. I also found sveasoft. I think I'll get the WFT54G and think about the custom firmware once I verify what the stock has to offer. I did look through the sveasoft feature list and faq though. Very complete. Though I would like the ability to assign a static IP *within* the dynamic range (the firmware doesn't check and might assign a conflicting number).

And Tom, thanks for the heads up! Makes me a bit more relieved for the rest of the weekend. Now i just have to find out where the best place is to get this part. I'd like to do it "officially" - because I'm sure I could always find one of those boards at work and put it in myself.

Bruno