Some help with broadcasts through a Linux system

[Tony Hoyle]

Dan Kaminsky wrote:
> 
> >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!

Don't jump too much it only patches against 2.2.0beta4...

:-(

Tony

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