On Tuesday 29 October 2002 12:20 am, dan carter wrote: > 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
I have not used it, but there is a Linux development effort for L2TP: http://sourceforge.net/projects/l2tp SMB Browse lists are best handled in a WAN setting by use of WINS. ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf ------------------------------------------------------------------------ leaf-user mailing list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user SR FAQ: http://leaf-project.org/pub/doc/docmanager/docid_1891.html
