Phil, Bridging t/r to ethernet is evil is so many ways that its just not been worth doing it in software when there are two other solutions, 1) get a hardware bridge, i.e. cisco or 2) just route the segment instead. Mike - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html