You say yourself that your problem is the lack of a switch; i.e. you want your Linux machine to serve as the switch; i.e. you need a Linux bridge
In other words, a "switch" is merely a multi-port bridge. rick jones -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netfilter" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html