On Fri, 2004-03-26 at 13:03, Simon Wong wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-03-25 at 18:40, Alexander Samad wrote:
> > I was wondering if any one has been able to get netbios broadcasts to be
> > routed with out installing samba, i know on cisco ios you have an
> > netbios forward broadcast option. Is there some thing similiar under
> > linux ? a deamon that might do this ?
>
> I think you can do some sort of bridge to join two subnets. I saw
> something about it when setting up Freeswan but some googling just then
> didn't turn it up :-(
I really can't see why you wouldn't want to set up
Samba. Microsoft themselves no longer recommend Cisco's
approach (which dates back to Windows for Workgroups).
See MS Knowledge Base articles 190930 and 135464.
Rather set up Samba, with /etc/samba/smb.conf
wins support = yes
dns proxy = no
name resolve order = lmhosts wins
and perhaps (ie, read manual and compare to
your circumstances)
local master = yes
domain master = yes
preferred master = yes
os level = 65
domain logons = no
and in /etc/dhcpd.conf for your network say
option netbios-name-servers 1.2.3.4;
option netbios-node-type 2;
where 1.2.3.4 is the IP address of the server with
Samba.
Then hosts will use the Samba server to find
resources rather then sending out broadcasts.
Ideally the only broadcasts you want to see are
ARP, spanning tree, OSPF and DHCP [1].
Cheers,
Glen
[1] Spanning tree is getting more and more
doubtful, better to set MAC address limits
on end-user ports to prevent accidental
switch attachment and then disable STP
on those user-facing ports.
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