From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 26 19:10:06 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id TAA27594 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 26 Feb 1997 19:10:06 -0800 (PST) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id TAA27559 for ; Wed, 26 Feb 1997 19:10:01 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id TAA08552; Wed, 26 Feb 1997 19:09:53 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 26 Feb 1997 19:09:53 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White X-Sender: dwhite@localhost Reply-To: Doug White To: Keith Mitchell cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: forwarding broadcast packets between interfaces In-Reply-To: <199702270103.UAA07004@weenix.guru.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 26 Feb 1997, Keith Mitchell wrote: > Is there any way to forward broadcast packets between interfaces?? > > I would like to be able to browse the windows machines on the other side > of the gateway with a windows machine behind the gateway. The problem is > the windows machine doesn't get the broadcasts so it doesn't know they are > there. Otherwise, it can connect to them fine. It is using Netbios over > TCPIP (NetBT). > > Also, it would be nice if I could echo the rwho packets to the local subnet > as well. Perhaps; try setting gateway=YES in /etd/sysconfig then add the proper routes. > I would like to do this on a per-service basis though. ie I don't want to > forward ALL of the broadcast messages just ones on certain ports. You'd have to set up IPFilter or ipfw and filter out the packets you don't want. (?) Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major