How does a Local Master Browser send a MBA to the DMB?

Jeremy Allison jallison at cthulhu.engr.sgi.com
Wed Feb 3 17:59:57 GMT 1999


Richard Sharpe wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> how does the LMB manage to send an MBA to the DMB?
> 
> That is, how does it figure out the subnet that has the DMB?

Contacts the WINS server.

This is all explained in BROWSING.txt.

Jeremy.

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