From: darth router (darklordrouter@gmail.com)
Date: Thu Jul 05 2007 - 09:22:12 ART
Antonio,
>
> thanks. I am still a bit flustered by the different examples in the doc
> cd. It seems in a situation where you wanted to convert broadcasts to
> unicasts and then to broadcasts again at a receiving end, you would only
> need to put the ip directed-broadcast on the receiving end, in your example,
> R3. What benefit does the ip directed-broadcast have on the source interface
> where you a translating the broadcast to unicast. In the ip multicast-helper
> map, they do just that, which does not seem to make a whole lot of logical
> sense. I have seen examples, where you want to forward broadcasts for a
> protocol, and the only place the directed broadcast is needed is on the
> destination side. directed broadcasts on both sides I would just assume,
> that traffic needs to broadcast back and forth in both directions?
>
>
> R1====R2====R3
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