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> Thanks for the suggestion though. I'm not familiar with ZeroConf; I'll
> check it out.

ZeroConf is an interesting concept. Unfortunately it restricts IPs to
the 169.254/16 range and it is very likely some of our customers will
want to be able to configure our boxes to an IP range of their own
choosing. That's the biggest concern we have with this facility. It's
definitely attractive, but I don't think we can use unfortunately.