but this would need a list of every address that the hosts could ever be, our lan dynamically assigns ip addresses which expire after each logon, so the wya we get round it is to have the network reserve the ip address of the machine we need it on when it sees the mac address of the network card sigh o the system, these reserved addresses are soley for the machines we use reflectionx on .

if we could run reflectionx on any pc with any ipaddress and the unix servers still see them as terminals we'd be laughing, there must be more than one way of skinning a cat as they say.