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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical RE: WINS Proxy vs. Cisco IP Helper
If you want a really good discription of how WINS servers interoperate, see the Smaba documentation/browsing.txt especially concerning WINS interactions across sub-nets and sub-domains. It clarified stuff for me that the MS dox left very muddied. > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]On Behalf Of > Carter, Gregory > Sent: Tuesday, April 25, 2000 12:26 PM > To: '[email protected]' > Cc: '[email protected]'; '[email protected]' > Subject: WINS Proxy vs. Cisco IP Helper > > > > Greetings! > > I have a bit of a philosophical question regarding the use of > a WINS Proxy > versus using Cisco's IP Helper to forward UDP datagram > packets off to a central > WINS server. Let me give some background to the setup of the > company I work > for. > > Currently we are noticing that we have too many WINS servers > running throughout > our divisions and some of our servers are corrupting the WINS > database. As a > whole our IS divisional managers will be meeting soon and > would like to discuss > this situation and limit our WINS servers down to one per > division. We have a > total of five divisions; the fifth is a central office where > for the most part > the whole company looks to as the head office. Each division > is also split up > into regions, which usually have a hub site that is connected > up to the division > hub site then to our main hub site (the fifth division). All > of our locations > are setup on frame relay and all of them have Cisco 1600 > routers. Currently we > have a WINS server at the division site, and two regions with > WINS servers in > them. The Cisco routers use IP helper at our spoke sites to > forward the UDP > datagram packets from the local LAN of the spoke sites up to > the WINS server for > that region. The regional WINS servers then push pull up to > the division WINS > server and the division WINS server push pulls up to the > company's main hub site > (fifth division) thereby syncing the entire company. > > By limiting the divisions to a single WINS server obviously > the regional WINS > servers will either need to go away or they will need to be > replaced with WINS > proxy servers that will proxy the requests back up to the > divisional server. > > My concern is to whether it would be wiser for us to dump the > regional WINS > servers altogether and change IP helper to point back to the > division WINS > server instead, or to go ahead and shut down the regional > WINS servers and > replace them with WINS proxying. I have come to the > conclusion that either way > would take the same amount of bandwidth, and as far as > redundancy is concerned > we can simply change the secondary WINS server address in > DHCP to the main hub > site's address. > > Does anyone here have a relevant opinion on this matter, or > any reasons not to > implement one or the other of the solutions? > > +([email protected])--------------------------------------------- > ---------+ > | Dynamic Networking Solutions InterX > Technologies | > | Senior Network Administrator bits/keyID > 1024/7DF9C285 | > | [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] > [email protected] | > +--------[ DC 50 57 59 C3 76 46 E8 EB 75 A8 94 FE 96 9E D3 > ]----------+ >
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