[Beds] Broadcast packets over VPN

[Darren Parkinson]

I'm afraid I don't know the answer to your question, except to say that =
my personal preference might be to set up the services mentioned due to =
bandwidth restrictions etc.  Although having said that, for a small =
network it does seem overkill I suppose....

The main reason for responding was to say that I would be interested in =
your setup.  I'm assuming that you're using FreeS/WAN etc..?

Thanks,
Darren.

-----Original Message-----
From: Jonathan Dye [mailto:jonathan.dye@automationpartnership.com]
Sent: 18 March 2003 08:38
To: Bedfordshire Linux Users Group (E-mail)
Subject: [Beds] Broadcast packets over VPN


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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