broadcast and router ?

broadcast and router ?

[Sdimitrov]

Hi. Sorry for my bad english.

Our local chat use a UDP 8167 and broadcast. All is OK but people over
router in other network don't receive a packets.

Can I have route this packets to they's network with iptables?

networks are 192.168.0.255 and 192.168.1.255

thanks

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Re: broadcast and router ?

[Mohamed Eldesoky]

ebtables ??

On 5/15/05, Sdimitrov <st.dimitrov@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi. Sorry for my bad english.
> 
> Our local chat use a UDP 8167 and broadcast. All is OK but people over
> router in other network don't receive a packets.
> 
> Can I have route this packets to they's network with iptables?
> 
> networks are 192.168.0.255 and 192.168.1.255
> 
> thanks
> 
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Re: broadcast and router ?

[Taylor, Grant]

> ebtables ??
> 
>>Hi. Sorry for my bad english.
>>
>>Our local chat use a UDP 8167 and broadcast. All is OK but people over
>>router in other network don't receive a packets.
>>
>>Can I have route this packets to they's network with iptables?
>>
>>networks are 192.168.0.255 and 192.168.1.255

If I could not get both networks working on a larger subnet (/23?) I would possibly try (D/S)NATing traffic that was destined to one subnetworks broadcast address to another and vice-versa.  I would also seriously look to see if there was an application level proxy for your chat program.  Below is a sample rule that I would be tempted to try:

iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -i $LAN_1_if -d 192.168.0.255 -p udp --dport 8167 -j DNAT --to-destination 192.168.1.255
iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -i $LAN_2_if -d 192.168.1.255 -p udp --dport 8167 -j DNAT --to-destination 192.168.0.255
iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -o $LAN_1_if -d 192.168.0.255 -p udp --dport 8167 -j SNAT --to-source $LAN_1_if_IP
iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -o $LAN_2_if -d 192.168.1.255 -p udp --dport 8167 -j SNAT --to-source $LAN_2_if_IP

I *think* this is a quick and *DIRTY* hack that should get the traffic to cross the subnets.  I say DIRTY b/c this type of practice is avoided for a lot of different reasons.  You may or may not want to SNAT the traffic depending on how the client software plays.  I would make sure to ONLY DNAT traffic to the broadcast to a specific UDP port to prevent spreading of any other broadcast traffic.



Grant. . . .