On Tue, 18 Jun 2002, John Madden wrote:
> While we're on the subject!
>> Something I've looked at but had no luck with was broadcast messages. I'm
> on a VPN in college made up mostly of Windows boxen. I've gotten linpopup
> working, but I've never been able to send or recieve messages to or from
> the whole workgroup.
>> Anyone ever had any luck getting something like this to work?
probably cause of the VPN - if it doesnt bridge you onto the windows
subnet broadcast wont work.
one way to make it work is to have the VPN server (i presume it /is/
on the windows subnet) do proxy ARP for you.
regards,
--paulj
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