On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 18:44, Jersey Guy <guy.jersey_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks Santiago, Marko, all,
> The problem is that the vendor doesn't do multicast. They do UDP broadcast
> only. and yes, the main objective is to save WAN bandwidth.
>
> Instead of them sending 4 x broadcasts, one per /26 subnet, I want them to
> send one broadcast for the /24, then have the router forward it to each of
> the /26s. Just wondering if there's some way of configuring this on the
> router..?
That's exactly what multicast helper was designed to solve. It would
translate the original broadcast into multicast to be carried over WAN
and then convert it back to broadcast on the other end... or any
number of broadcasts, depending how many interfaces you have it
configured. Did you read through the configuration guide I posted?
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