[Beds] Broadcast packets over VPN

[Jonathan Dye]

Hi,

I've managed to set up a VPN between myself and a friend using IPSec.  We
both have /24 subnets in the 10.0.0.0 network, he has a gateway with a
static IP and mine is dynamic.  When I dialup my computer initiates a
connection to his (always on) gateway.  Everything work fine in that we can
connect between machine in our networks across the VPN.

The problem I have is that it doesn't appear that broadcast packets get
routed across the link (and I wasn't expecting them to cross routers).  But
this is a problem because we want to allows CUPS and SMB across the link and
both programs use broadcasts to announce their presence.  I know we can set
up CUPS to use a specific address and we can set up Samba to use a WINS
server but I'd really like to get it to work without doing those things.
Does anyone know of a way to get this to work or should I give up and use
the previously mentioned methods?

JD

P.S. If anyone is interested in how we set up the VPN then I can write a
description.

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