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How to prevent broadcasting between two NICs in Windows XP

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    LaHaHa
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    I would like to know how to prevent broadcasting between two NICs (NIC X 192.168.xx.1, NIC Y 192.168.yy.1)in Windows XP? I have a PC with two NICs in different VLAN. I found that many traffics in 192.168.xx.0 are generated by ip address of its NIC Y 192.168.yy.1. The source mac address of the traffics are its NIC X. The destination of the traffics are mac address FFFFFFFFFFFF. So I would like to prevent it! Please help!

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      I would like to know how to prevent broadcasting between two NICs (NIC X 192.168.xx.1, NIC Y 192.168.yy.1)in Windows XP? I have a PC with two NICs in different VLAN. I found that many traffics in 192.168.xx.0 are generated by ip address of its NIC Y 192.168.yy.1. The source mac address of the traffics are its NIC X. The destination of the traffics are mac address FFFFFFFFFFFF. So I would like to prevent it! Please help!

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      Michael Hendrickx
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      Which broadcasts are these? i guess it will be your normal "NetBIOS announcements". If possible (and wont break anything), remove the "client for windows networks" on it.

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        Which broadcasts are these? i guess it will be your normal "NetBIOS announcements". If possible (and wont break anything), remove the "client for windows networks" on it.

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        Is it can prevent NIC X to forward the traffic that the NIC Y 192.168.yy.1 to send packets to 255.255.255.255? Please help!

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          Is it can prevent NIC X to forward the traffic that the NIC Y 192.168.yy.1 to send packets to 255.255.255.255? Please help!

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          Well.. how do you see that this broadcast is going to the other subnet? It would be very stupid for Microsoft to broadcast your presence coming from an IP to a network which will only route it onwards. A packet of 192.168.xx.1 will never arrive anywhere on 192.168.yy.0/24 .... How are you determine the delivery of this packet? Are you using a sniffer?

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            I would like to know how to prevent broadcasting between two NICs (NIC X 192.168.xx.1, NIC Y 192.168.yy.1)in Windows XP? I have a PC with two NICs in different VLAN. I found that many traffics in 192.168.xx.0 are generated by ip address of its NIC Y 192.168.yy.1. The source mac address of the traffics are its NIC X. The destination of the traffics are mac address FFFFFFFFFFFF. So I would like to prevent it! Please help!

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            LaHaHa wrote:

            I would like to know how to prevent broadcasting between two NICs (NIC X 192.168.xx.1, NIC Y 192.168.yy.1)in Windows XP? I have a PC with two NICs in different VLAN. I found that many traffics in 192.168.xx.0 are generated by ip address of its NIC Y 192.168.yy.1. The source mac address of the traffics are its NIC X. The destination of the traffics are mac address FFFFFFFFFFFF.

            Use router instead of 2 network card. Router will block broadcast by default.

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              LaHaHa wrote:

              I would like to know how to prevent broadcasting between two NICs (NIC X 192.168.xx.1, NIC Y 192.168.yy.1)in Windows XP? I have a PC with two NICs in different VLAN. I found that many traffics in 192.168.xx.0 are generated by ip address of its NIC Y 192.168.yy.1. The source mac address of the traffics are its NIC X. The destination of the traffics are mac address FFFFFFFFFFFF.

              Use router instead of 2 network card. Router will block broadcast by default.

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              LaHaHa
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              The reason of using 2 network card is used to send a lot of data in a isolated network without affect the real network. The PC with two network card is the PC of teacher. So we can't use router instead of it.

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                Well.. how do you see that this broadcast is going to the other subnet? It would be very stupid for Microsoft to broadcast your presence coming from an IP to a network which will only route it onwards. A packet of 192.168.xx.1 will never arrive anywhere on 192.168.yy.0/24 .... How are you determine the delivery of this packet? Are you using a sniffer?

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                Something like sniffer! It may be due to a class management software, it will generate the boardcast frame periodically. But it always send to 192.168.xx.1.

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