On 2/24/06, Jay Austad <austad at signal15.com> wrote: > So, the zeroconf/bonjour stuff that Apple uses only works on the same > local network, you can't see people in other segments. This is > because they use 224.x.x.x address which will not pass through a router. > > I'm thinking that with some fancy iptables work and a linux box, I > could tell it to "NAT" those packets to a 239.x.x.x multicast address > and route them between segments using multicast routing. The remote > network would need to have a box that would NAT them back also. > Does anyone think this would work? I haven't looked too much into it > or tried it yet. You could probably make that work with iptables, but why not just put up a VPN between the sites? OpenVPN works well and runs on OSX. scot