dnwcv@dcatla.UUCP (William C. VerSteeg) (12/09/88)
We have been working to make some PC applications work over netbios and TCP/IP. One of the applications relies on ethernet broadcasts to determine who his peers are. This works fine in a one LAN environment. However, when we break the LAN into two parts, joined by an IP router, it ceases to work. The IP broadcast is addressed to 255.255.255.255. The IP router (correctly) does not route this packet off of the local network. What we need to happen is to have the program send <network_number>.255.255. This would allow us to configure our addresses such that all devices on one logical network (as seen by our application) to reach each other using IP broadcasts whether they are on the same physical network or not. Has anyone been able to make the FTP software package send network broadcasts instead of global broadcasts? By the way, the TCP software we are using is made by FTP, which appears to be a pretty good product. Thanks Bill VerSteeg