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2000 Non-Statutory Stock Option Plan

(Full title of the Plans)

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(Name, address and telephone number, including area code, of agent for service)

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Copy to:

Sylvia Snouwaert Venture Law Group
A Professional Corporation
2800 Sand Hill Road
Menlo Park, California 94025
(650) 854-4488

(Calculation of Registration Fee on following page)

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Item 3. Incorporation of Documents by Reference.

The following documents filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "Commission") are hereby incorporated by reference:

(a) The Registrant's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended 1999 filed pursuant to Section 13(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the "Exchange Act"), which contains audited financial statements for the Registrant's latest fiscal year for which such statements have been filed.

(b) All other reports filed pursuant to Section 13(a) or 15(d) of the Exchange Act since the end of the fiscal year covered by the Annual Report referred to in (a) above.

(c) The description of the Registrant's Common Stock contained in the Registrant's Registration Statement on Form 8-A filed with the Commission under Section 12 of the Exchange Act on April 16, 1999, including any amendment or report filed for the purpose of updating such description.

All documents subsequently filed by the Registrant pursuant to Sections 13(a), 13(c), 14 and 15(d) of the Exchange Act, prior to the filing of a post-effective amendment which indicates that all securities offered hereby have been sold or which deregisters all securities then remaining unsold, shall be deemed to be incorporated by reference in this Registration Statement and to be part hereof from the date of filing such documents.

Item 4. Description of Securities. Not applicable.

Item 5. Interests of Named Experts and Counsel.

Certain legal matters with respect to the legality of the issuance of the Common Stock registered hereby will be passed upon for the Registrant by Venture Law Group, Menlo Park, California. As of the date of this Registration Statement, certain members of Venture Law Group beneficially own shares of the Registrants' Common Stock in the aggregate valued in excess of $50,000.

Item 6. Indemnification of Directors and Officers.

The Registrant's Certificate of Incorporation limits the liability of directors to the maximum extent permitted by Delaware law. Delaware law provides that a director of a corporation will not be personally liable for monetary damages for breach of such individual's fiduciary duties as a director except for liability (i) for any breach of such director's duty of loyalty to the company or to its stockholders, (ii) for acts or omissions not in good faith or that involve intentional misconduct or a knowing violation of law, (iii) for unlawful payments of dividends or unlawful stock repurchases or redumptions as provided in Section 174 of the Delaware General Corporation Law or (iv) for any transaction from which a director derives an improper personal benefit.

The Registrant's Bylaws provide the Registrant indemnify its directors and executive officers and may indemnify its officers, employees and other agents to the full extent permitted by law. The Registrant believes that indemnification under its Bylaws covers at least negligence on the part of an indemnified party. The Registrant's Bylaws also permit it to advance expenses incurred by an indemnified party in connection with the defense of any action or proceeding arising out of his or her status or service as a director, officer, employee or other agent of the company upon an undertaking by him or her to repay such advances if it is ultimately determined that he or she is not entitled to indemnification.

The Registrant has entered into separate indemnification agreements with each of its directors and officers. These agreements require Registrant to, among other things, indemnify such director or officer against expenses, including attorney's fees, judgments, fines and settlements paid by such individual in connection with any action, suit or proceeding arising out of such individual's status or service as a director or officer of the company, other than liability arising form willful misconduct or conduct that is knowingly fraudulent or deliberately dishonest, and to advance expenses incurred by such individual in connection with any proceeding against such individual with respect to which such individual may be entitled to indemnification by Registrant. The Registrant believes that its Certificate of Incorporation and bylaw provisions and indemnification agreements are necessary to attract and retain qualified persons as directors and executive officers. The Registrant also maintains directors' and officers' liability insurance.

Item 7. Exemption from Registration Claimed. Not applicable.

Item 8. Exhibits.

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Item 9. Undertakings.

The undersigned Registrant hereby undertakes:

(1) to file, during any period in which offers or sales are being made, a post-effective amendment to this registration statement to include any material information with respect to the plan of distribution not previously disclosed in the registration statement or any material change to such information in the registration statement.

(2) that, for purposes of determining any liability under the Securities Act, each such post-effective amendment shall be deemed to be a new registration statement relating to the securities offered therein, and the offering of such securities at that time shall be deemed to be the initial bona fide offering thereof.

(3) to remove from registration by means of a post- effective amendment any of the securities being registered which remain unsold at the termination of the offering.

The undersigned Registrant hereby undertakes that, for purposes of determining any liability under the Securities Act, each filing of the Registrant's annual report pursuant to Section 13(a) or Section 15(d) of the Exchange Act that is incorporated by reference in the registration statement shall be deemed to be a new registration statement relating to the securities offered therein, and the offering of such securities at that time shall be deemed to be the initial bona fide offering thereof.

Insofar as the indemnification for liabilities arising under the Securities Act may be permitted to directors, officers and controlling persons of the Registrant pursuant to the foregoing provisions, or otherwise, the Registrant has been advised that in the opinion of the Commission such indemnification is against public policy as expressed in the Securities Act and is, therefore, unenforceable. In the event that a claim for indemnification against such liabilities (other than the payment by the Registrant of expenses incurred or paid by a director, officer or controlling person of the Registrant in a successful defense of any action, suit or proceeding) is asserted by such director, officer or controlling person in connection with the securities being registered hereunder, the Registrant will, unless in the opinion of its counsel the question has already been settled by controlling precedent, submit to a court of appropriate jurisdiction the question of whether such indemnification by it is against public policy as expressed in the Securities Act and will be governed by the final adjudication of such issue.

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SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the Registrant, Ramp Networks, Inc., a corporation organized and existing under the laws of the State of Delaware, certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all of the requirements for filing on Form S-8 and has duly caused this Registration Statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Santa Clara, State of California, on this 9th day of November, 2000.

POWER OF ATTORNEY

KNOW ALL PERSONS BY THESE PRESENTS, that each person whose signature appears below constitutes and appoints Mahesh Veerina and Perry Grace, jointly and severally, his or her attorneys-in-fact and agents, each with the power of substitution and resubstitution, for him or her and in his or her name, place or stead, in any and all capacities, to sign any amendments to this Registration Statement on Form S-8, and to file such amendments, together with exhibits and other documents in connection therewith, with the Securities and Exchange Commission, granting to each attorney-in-fact and agent, full power and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing requisite and necessary to be done in and about the premises, as fully as he or she might or could do in person, and ratifying and confirming all that the attorney-in-facts and agents, or his or her substitute or substitutes, may do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this Registration Statement has been signed by the following persons in the capacities and on the dates indicated.

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