Broadcast packet forwarding by RRAS clients

[David Wolfe]

I have a small private network that I would like to
configure to allow a limited number of VPN clients to
connect to. This would be for Internet gaming purposes.
Many multiplayer games that look for a game server do so
by sending out a subnet broadcast looking for servers.
Obviously, if a client is on the subnet via a VPN server,
the VPN server won't normally forward these broadcast
packets to the rest of the subnet.

Does anyone know of a way to tell Win2k RRAS to allow
broadcast packets to traverse the RRAS server interface?

Thanks!

 

[Brian Oakes [MSFT]]

The short answer is no

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[Alan Wood [MSFT]]

Please also note that this functionality "DOES" exist in Windows 2003
Server in RRAS.

Thank you,

Alan Wood[MSFT]

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[Brian Oakes [MSFT]]

It does? Where is the selection Alan?

Is it in the GUI or netsh?
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