[Openswan Users] overlapping networks with nat-t

Paul Wouters paul at xelerance.com
Thu Jan 19 17:19:06 CET 2006


On Thu, 19 Jan 2006, Peter Farrow wrote:

> You might want to take a look at this:
> http://www.unix.org.ua/orelly/networking_2ndEd/fire/ch14_03.htm
>
> NETBT is what you are describing here, personally I would not want network
> neighbourhood browser traffic going over WAN links from each client on the
> LAN, you would use WINS servers with replication partners to facilitate this,
> clogging up WAN tunnels with this traffic would impact performance severely on
> networks with a large number of clients.  Using WINS servers elminates
> this....

Using ActiveDirectory and DNS would be even better then using WINS :)

Paul


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