This would solve the wakee on lan problem - wouldn't it?

All you'd need is to extend this idea with a config file to select WHAT
broadcasts you route over WHICH vpn's (to conserve bandwidth) and then all
these things would work.

Even if you don't have time yourself, seems like a great find to me.

m/

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Thomas Hertz [mailto:term at cynisk dot net]
> Sent: Friday, May 28, 2004 8:28 AM
> To: m0n0wall at lists dot m0n0 dot ch
> Subject: RE: [m0n0wall] ipsec and windows
>
>
> Yes, many products out there offers the possibility to route
> broadcasts but
> the FreeBSD team has decided that this is violating some RFC:s (which it
> is...)
>
> As discussed earlier this is pretty annoying when you want to route
> broadcasts in a relatively "safe" way, like across a VPN tunnel
> or similar.
> There is a way to come around this limitation in FreeBSD by running a
> broadcast routing daemon (like the one at
> http://non-standard.net/freebsd/game-vpn/bcastd.pl ). This
> particular daemon
> is a perl script, but I see no problems in writing a simple c program that
> will do the same. I might even do it myself, if I find the time.
>
> // Thomas Hertz
>