>>It's simple and you don't need routed or gated.
>
>I think you do need routed.  You want the outside world to be informed
>that your class C network is reachable through your serial port!  Granted,
>you could have your ISP hardwire this in their tables, but it's just one
>more thing for them to fat-finger at 3AM when their router crashes and they
>have to retype the configuration.

Do most ISP's run routed?  I was under the impression that they didn't, but
what do I know :-)  It seems like a security hole if they did, since it would
be easy for customers to insert bogus routes to god knows where.

--Ken