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Anyhow, that's about all I know about it. I have two other questions.
One is, what does "Connected to localhost (6.6.31)" at the bottom of
the Boinc screen mean? It is not a dotted decimal IP address or a
port number. The other is, is it possible to run Seti on other
computers and obtain work from a central Boinc? I used to do this
with SetiGate; I don't know if this is possible with Boinc. (Among other things, I was thinking about depleting the queue when it gets
near one of the windows, to trigger fetching of work.)

Thanks for any info. Yours, Dave

The connected to localhost message is to tell you what computer BOINC manager is monitoring. If you had a network of computers all running BOINC you could use the BOINC manager from one computer to check on all of the others one at a time. From BOINC go to Advanced> Select computer... But first you have to set up the remote_hosts.cfg and gui_rpc_auth.cfg files on the other computers (the ones you want to monitor).

The 6.6.31 is the BOINC version number for the computer you're monitoring or the version number of the BOINC manager you're using, I can't remember which. If you were monitoring a different computer the message would say "Connected to <computername> (BOINC version number)".