I’ve spent the last 14 hours or so trying to find out why broadcast traffic is not being sent over my VPN (desktop client → L2TP/IPsec). I have been using this tutorial. I need to be able to see network devices from Network Places on my PC and Network on my Mac. I have been through every Google result for this issue but still cannot figure out what’s wrong.
Some users said to add bridges, others said that a WINS server was necessary, and a few more said that this could be accomplished with simple routes. I’ve tried all of these (with the exception of deploying a WINS server), so clearly I’m doing something wrong. The VPN is using the DHCP pool, so they’re on the same subnet. I can ping VPN clients and they can ping me.
Given that I used the above tutorial, what step is missing to ensure that broadcast traffic is flowing?
I did try this tutorial, but found that this is not a solution for road warriors, but rather for site to site VPN. If this IS for road warriors, could someone please explain how to adapt it to a single L2TP connection?
I have, although it seems there are a dozen or so conflicting fixes for the same problem. Was there a particular solution in one of those threads that you know works or were you just checking if I attempted all of these different fixes? I feel like this can be uniformly fixed with a simple procedure.
Can someone please suggest a tested, working solution?