Re: broadcast question

Marko, Thanks for your excellent suggestion. I'm reading it and will discuss
it with my colleagues. Sadly, we're a large/huge shop and trying to
implement multicast in the network will be a humongous task. Even so, it's
an option..thanks much!

On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 2:01 PM, Marko Milivojevic <markom_at_ipexpert.com>wrote:

> 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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