[Gllug] routing broadcast traffic

[Jonathan Dye]

At 10:44 29/01/02 +0000, you wrote:
>basically, this all stems from me wanting to play halflife and quake3 :-) on
>our uni student network there are often 10 Counterstrike servers, i have NAT
>and portforwarding set up correctly so my windows box can connect to a server
>if i specify it by IP, but.
>
>as i am masqueraded behind my linuxbox firewall i dont see the netgame
>broadcast traffic and so dont see any LAN servers, i have to phone up the
>windows guy accross the building and ask him what servers are up,
>
>could i route the uni boradcast address traffic to my internal box (eugh!)
>would i route it to my windows boxs' ip or to its broadcast?

You could probably route only the broadcasts to the specific port that the
servers use therefore you wouldn't get all the other crud.  That is
assuming you can route the broadcasts at all.  It probably requires some
trickery with netfilter.

JD


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