From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Aug 27 22:20:46 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2B1E3106566B for ; Wed, 27 Aug 2008 22:20:46 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from asmtpout020.mac.com (asmtpout020.mac.com [17.148.16.95]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 18B238FC15 for ; Wed, 27 Aug 2008 22:20:46 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=WINDOWS-1252; format=flowed; delsp=yes Received: from cswiger1.apple.com ([17.227.140.124]) by asmtp020.mac.com (Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 6.3-7.03 (built Aug 7 2008; 32bit)) with ESMTPSA id <0K6A00DF362JR820@asmtp020.mac.com> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 27 Aug 2008 15:20:44 -0700 (PDT) Message-id: From: Chuck Swiger To: =?WINDOWS-1252?Q?Nejc_=8Akoberne?= In-reply-to: <48B5CB70.9080900@skoberne.net> Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2008 15:20:43 -0700 References: <48B5CB70.9080900@skoberne.net> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.928.1) Cc: User Questions Subject: Re: Proxying broadcasts? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2008 22:20:46 -0000 On Aug 27, 2008, at 2:47 PM, Nejc =8Akoberne wrote: [ ... ] Or, you could set up Sybase's > I also have some Sybase SQL servers on SERVERS network, which use =20 > broadcasts to announce > themselves to the network. Before, when there were no separate =20 > segments, everything worked fine > of course. > > My question: is there any way to "proxy" (forward) broadcast =20 > requests from USERS1 to the > SERVERS network? So the users in USERS* networks could find Sybase =20 > SQL servers via broadcasts? The simple answer is no: if you want subnet-local broadcast traffic to =20= be received, then your DB servers and your clients need to be on the =20 same subnet. Routers are designed and required to not propagate =20 broadcast traffic, although you could switch to doing bridging rather =20= than routing. Or, you could set up Sybase's SQL.INI to list all of =20 the databases you care about, if I recall correctly... Regards, --=20 -Chuck