Re: Is it possible to forward broadcasting with IPtables?

[Antony Stone <Antony@Soft-Solutions.co.uk>]

On Wednesday 07 April 2004 7:38 am, Younger Wang wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> I am seeking a way to forward WINs broadcast.

Use a WINS server.   That will forward peer discovery requests to other 
subnets.   Samba will do the job nicely.

> Is it possible to be done with iptables? If not, is there a standard way
> to do broadcast forwarding?

There is no way to generically forward network broadcasts, otherwise the 
entire Internet would get flooded with them.   Broadcasts are designed to 
reach every machine on a local subnet, and no others.

Regards,

Antony.

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