Routing Broadcast to unicast address.

2007-12-25 11:05:00

My question was :

>

> I am trying to do the following on an Ultra 450 running Solaris 2.6

> The machine is acting as a router and has 4 networks connected via

> its hme and qfe interfaces.

>

> I need to change all broadcast traffic in one particular subnet to

> unicast traffic (an IP address).

>

> On a Cisco router the equivalent command would be "ip helper-address"

> A guy from Cisco said that this is not possible using Solaris but I

> wanted to confirm from you guys before.

>

Thanks to Michael Cunningham for his reply.

Basically, it is not possible to do this with Solaris (the Cisco guy was

right). He suggested I use the gated routing daemon.

Regards,

Duncan Vella

Systems Specialist

E-mail: dvella@melitacable.com

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