> ok, i'm still not sure what you're trying to do but thought i'd > mention that bridge(3) is not something that implements an "Ethernet > bridge" as in ANSI/IEEE 802.1d
i don't have the 802.1d standard. i can imagine the mss business isn't standard and it seems a real bridge needs to participate in spanning-tree stuff. is there anything else a bridge must do? i just want to be able to keep traffic counters &c between two hosts connected back-to-back. i think bridge(3) provides more than i need, but i might be missing something. - erik
