Some help with broadcasts through a Linux system
Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
lkcl at switchboard.net
Sun Feb 7 23:47:50 GMT 1999
On Thu, 4 Feb 1999, Gerald Carter wrote:
> Dan Kaminsky wrote:
> >
> > That's how it works now. That's not how it should work.
> > The "heh I'm here" broadcast should be routed just
> > like the packet that sent this email is.
>
> Are you saying that "wins proxy" should forward
> registration requests and not just resolution
> requests?
>
> I seem got have gotten lost in this thread somehow.
wins proxy should forward *all* packets except "negative responses". this
makes the behaviour of the broadcast-based client look like a wins-based
client.
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