NETBios/WINS

[soklear]

Its been a while...

Is WINS requests routable across routers? In other words, I will have two servers, each with WINS installed on two different networks (a private WAN)- A router (or two) will seperate the two networks and I will need to route the two WINS server and service requests between the two servers.

Do I need to set up ip helper-address or do I even need to worry about it?

Thanks -
Bob

 

[warpzero]

WINS traffic will pass from router to router provided you add an "ip helper-address" on the router interface of the server trying to access the WINS system. If you do not specify the ip helper-address the traffic will stop at the first router. This also applies trying to go from VLAN to VLAN or interface to interface.

Michael




WarpZero Technologies

http://www.warpzero.com/

 

[ADB100]

As long as your Windows Clients are configured with the WINS server address(es) they should be able to resolve NetBIOS names. WINS requests are unicast to the WINS Server so they are just routed like any other unicast packet. If a WINS client can't resolve a name it may fallback to broadcasting (depending on the Node type - H node, M node etc).

I would ask why you need NetBIOS and why aren't you just using DNS?

Andy