Some help with broadcasts through a Linux system

Dan Kaminsky effugas at best.com
Wed Feb 3 10:40:24 GMT 1999


>If you want to forward your netbios datagram broadcasts you have to do
>more than just forwarding because the data contains ip-addresses too.
>
>I've solved this problem by writing a patch for Samba which 'glues'
>the subnets of my linux firewall together. You can find the code
>at http://malt-whisky.student.utwente.nl/nbfw/ . The code is not
>up-to-date with the latest Samba because I'm abroad, but that's an
>exercise for the reader ;)

Ooh!  Ooh!  If I was a dog, i'd be wagging my tail and thumping it against
the ground.  Oh joyous day!





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