iptables and pdc microsoft

iptables and pdc microsoft

[Luca Rossi]

Hi
is true that wins is not supported that Iptables?
Thenks

Luca

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Re: iptables and pdc microsoft

[David Cannings]

On Thursday 01 April 2004 15:22, Luca Rossi wrote:
> Hi
> is true that wins is not supported that Iptables?

RFC1001 [1] WINS, which is what Microsoft implement [2], is an application 
level protocol that uses TCP or UDP, therefore there is no such notion 
that netfilter does or doesn't "support" it.  It uses ports the same as 
any other protocol so can be filtered in exactly the same way.

David

1 - http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1001.html
2 - 
http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/en/server/help/default.asp?url=/windows2000/en/server/help/sag_WINS_ovr_WhatIs.htm

Re: iptables and pdc microsoft

[Antony Stone]

On Thursday 01 April 2004 3:22 pm, Luca Rossi wrote:

> Hi
> is true that wins is not supported that Iptables?

It is true that the Wins peer discovery protocol operates by network 
broadcasts and therefore does not traverse routers.

If you know the IP address of a machine you wish to connect to, however, then 
you can do this across as many routers as you like.

The relevance to netfilter is that netfilter is generally used on a routing 
Linux machine.

Hope this helps,

Antony.

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