From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Frans Luteijn Subject: Re: broadcasts to other network? Date: Thu, 23 Dec 2004 08:35:30 +0100 Message-ID: <41CA7542.99C24E57@knoware.nl> References: <41C7F5C5.6023137F@knoware.nl> <41C87F59.8050606@hdr-roma.it> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: netfilter-bounces@lists.netfilter.org Errors-To: netfilter-bounces@lists.netfilter.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: netfilter@lists.netfilter.org primero@hdr-roma.it schreef: > Frans Luteijn wrote: > > >... > > > >But no packets went out, at least that I couldn't see after adding a > >LOG-rule at OUTPUT and FORWARD. > > > >Is there an easy way to solve this or do I need a relaying-program (like > >dhcp)? > > > >Greetings, > > > > > > > The easiest way, IMHO, is using an UDP-Relay ... i mean, what is more > simple then a little daemon running smoothly ? ;) > > A better and not easy way would be bridging the interface to the > internal lan with the interface to the router using the same network > class. This way broadcasts would pass normally from one side of the > firewall to the other one, you could as well filter traffic beetween the > two interfaces. > > I would choose the latter ;) > bye > primeroz I want to choose the former. I am offering my ADSL to my house-mates via a wireless lan connected to my firewall with a fourth interface (not drawn in my first mail) and I don't want thost users on my private-net (it can be filtered out, but why doing it the hard way?). Does someone know a program, that can relay udp-broadcasts? Greetings, -- Frans Luteijn PGP PblKey fprnt=C4 87 CE AF BC B6 98 C1 EF 42 A1 9A E2 C0 42 5B GPG PblKey fprnt=ED20 0F25 C233 DC59 3FFA 170E D0BF 15F5 0BA6 1355