Thanks for the varied info. As I suspected, xconnecting STP is too complicated for something as simple as this. Anyway, we haven't yet heard from the customer, so maybe they're getting cold feet.

ps Sam, yup, not many people realize that the impetus for the internet materialized when the Russkies (to use the terminology of the time) sent Sputnik up there, thereby proving that they possesed ICBM technology (and that the CIA got caught with its pants down yet again). Put the fear of God into these gummint types. Btw, I appreciate the offer, one of these days we'll probably arrange something.