On Wednesday 07 April 2004 7:38 am, Younger Wang wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I am seeking a way to forward WINs broadcast.
Use a WINS server. That will forward peer discovery requests to other
subnets. Samba will do the job nicely.
> Is it possible to be done with iptables? If not, is there a standard way
> to do broadcast forwarding?
There is no way to generically forward network broadcasts, otherwise the
entire Internet would get flooded with them. Broadcasts are designed to
reach every machine on a local subnet, and no others.
Regards,
Antony.
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