No Stull, i dont think WINS uses directed broadcast and there was no WINS
server in the network i was talking about.
Regards
Atif
-----Original Message-----
From: Stull, Cory <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Atif Awan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Friday, July 07, 2000 12:02 AM
Subject: RE: interesting
>I'm not positive here but I think WINS uses directed broadcast if you have
>the WINS server specified...
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Atif Awan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>Sent: Thursday, July 06, 2000 7:23 PM
>To: John Neiberger; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: Re: interesting
>
>
>Right on target man :) thats what fixed it but i still have something to
>learn about Microsoft ( especially NT ) .. can u shed some light on why it
>was doing directed broadcast to other subnets ...
>
>Regards
>Atif
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: John Neiberger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: Atif Awan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
><[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Date: Thursday, July 06, 2000 7:21 PM
>Subject: Re: interesting
>
>
>>My guess is that it's because "no ip directed-broadcast" is the default on
>>each interface in 12.0. that's just a guess, I haven't had any coffee yet
>>so no actual thought is taking place. :-)
>>
>>John Neiberger
>>
>>>
>>> I had three sites in a hub and spoke configuration. Lets say router A
>was
>>> the hub router and there were two spokes router B and router C. All
were
>>> 2500 series routers ( 2501 ) running IOS 11.2 ip plus i think . There
>was
>>no
>>> complex configuration; simple static routes and everything was working
>>fine.
>>> The NT stations at each site were able to log on to the server placed
at
>>the
>>> hub and everything was showeing up on the network neighbourhood. This
>was
>>so
>>> because i had defined the required helper addresses.
>>>
>>> Then the need arose to add another site and the hub router A was
>replaced
>>by
>>> a cisco 2620. the same configuration was copied with ofcourse a few
>>> additional static routes here and there and one more ip helper-address
>>> statement for the new site. The new router was running IOS 12.1(1). The
>>next
>>> thing u know that still there is connectivity but when a new machine
>>boots
>>> on a remote site it is not able to find a domain controller. I had the
>>> helper addresses defined properly but still nothing. Even the network
>>> neighbourhood did not show all the machines; showed only the local
>>machines.
>>> Can anyone take a shot at this and guess what was the problem ?
>>>
>>>
>>> Regards
>>> Atif
>>>
>>> P.S : I managed to figure it out after running a debug trace on UDP but
>>> still i think it was an interesting prob and thought maybe someone
could
>>> give me a better explanation to it.
>>>
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