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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? > Uh, no. At least, not unless you know something about broadcasting between subnets... or are pulling some good multi-network tricks. Broadcasts don't go to other subnets. That's what WINS is for--allowing Windows networking between subnets. For example, if you're on a 192.168.0.0/24 subnet, to send a broadcast, a client sends it to 192.168.0.255. All computers with addresses between 192.168.0.1 and 192.168.0.254 get the broadcast. A computer at 192.168.1.1 doesn't. That's why it doesn't work. I'm not a networking expert, but as far as I know, you can't route broadcasts of this type. 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 |