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udp broadcasts and browse master

On a windows 2000/2003 domain we have users coming into a Cisco VPN Concentrator via the Cisco VPN Client software, these then seem to announce themselves as browse masters to the domain controller local to the concentrator and force elections all the time, with the main DC losing the elections which is strange anyway as it is the pdc.

Am I right in thinking udp broadcast traffic for this should not be crossing over or should be blocked?

A possibly relevant command I did find was:-

no ip forward-protocol udp NetBIOS-ns

I dont understand enough about it at this point so any pointers would be useful.

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b0b
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take a look at

K13241644 Title How to resolve Cisco VPN Client problems with name resolution

Verify that you are passing WINS server info to client.

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Merv

Where would I find that K document? ... Also, we do not use Wins.

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If you do not have w WINS server then Windows will use NETBIOS UDP broadcast for name resolution unless the users are using pure IP applications without nETBIOS

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