Re: [leaf-user] How to set up bridging with Bering?

[dan carter]

Charles Steinkuehler wrote:

You need to talk to more Microsoft people (motto: Microsoft doesn't
understand how tcp/ip works.)  The L2TP protocol used by M$ WAN's is a
Layer 2 Tunneling Protocol (hence the name), which enables your systems
to propogate Layer 2 packets (including broadcasts and arp requests)
over a WAN.  This is actually billed as a *FEATURE* of their WAN
software vs. the competition, which doesn't have such a feature.  The
fact that no-one should be so insane as to actually *WANT* to pipe
broadcast packets across their WAN is apparently lost on the
market-droids (and MS networking programmers).

Is there an a linux implementation of this protocol? I have been trying to get something like that going for ages to join two private LANs over the internet. All the VPN stuff i've looked at doesn't seem to be able to forward the broadcast packets even if they are directed broadcast packets, which breaks warcraft 3 LAN game discovery and simple broadcast discovery for smb browse lists



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