[Gllug] Broadcast packets across VPN

[Simon A. Boggis]

On Tue, 2003-03-18 at 08:34, Jonathan Dye wrote:
> 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?

Hi,

samba can synchronise lists of machines on each subnet - see
  · remote announce
  · remote browse sync
This has the effect of making machines on another subnet show up, by
virtue of being listed by the local browse master.

Simon

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