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On Wed, 2004-03-03 at 10:41, vklengh wrote: > Why a WINS server if I can allow broadcasts even with routing? > Don't the netbios clients ask for servers with service broadcasts? > WINS would be only needed if you deny broadcasts to the specific subnet, > isn't so? Well, I'm not sure how you would allow broadcasts with routing. Broadcasts are (usually) limited to the subnet. A WINS server is the common way to get Windows networking to work across subnets. (And if you have a Linux computer with Samba available, it's really easy...) If you set up a bridged configuration, then broadcasts work fine--your remote computer essentially is bridged to be in the same subnet as your other computers. If somebody can explain how to route broadcasts, that sounds interesting, but I'm not sure it's the best way to solve the problem... Cheers, -- John Locke Open Source solutions for small business problems http://freelock.com ____________________________________________ Openvpn-users mailing list Openvpn-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/openvpn-users |