SUMMARY: Routing Broadcast to unicast address.

From: Duncan Vella (dvella@melitacable.com)
Date: Fri Oct 01 1999 - 04:40:57 CDT


My question was :

>
> I am trying to do the following on an Ultra 450 running Solaris 2.6
> The machine is acting as a router and has 4 networks connected via
> its hme and qfe interfaces.
>
> I need to change all broadcast traffic in one particular subnet to
> unicast traffic (an IP address).
>
> On a Cisco router the equivalent command would be "ip helper-address"
> A guy from Cisco said that this is not possible using Solaris but I
> wanted to confirm from you guys before.
>

Thanks to Michael Cunningham for his reply.

Basically, it is not possible to do this with Solaris (the Cisco guy was
right). He suggested I use the gated routing daemon.

Regards,
Duncan Vella
Systems Specialist
E-mail: dvella@melitacable.com



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