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From: "John A. Sullivan III" <jsullivan@opensourcedevel.com>
Subject: Re: Netbios over NAT
Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2006 13:52:12 -0400
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To: Pascal Hambourg <pascal.mail@plouf.fr.eu.org>
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On Thu, 2006-10-19 at 19:14 +0200, Pascal Hambourg wrote:
> Hello,
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> John A. Sullivan III a =C3=A9crit :
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> > As far as I know, most NetBIOS functionality works across NAT except fo=
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> > browsing (and perhaps name registration).
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> Isn't it because these functionnalities use IP broadcasts ?
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No, they can be configured to use unicast packets and a WINS.  However,
even with unicast packets and WINS, it breaks when NAT is applied - John
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