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Originally Posted by ocicat
[This topology] shields them from any broadcast traffic occurring in any other subnet.
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Yes and no. It won't shield them from open broadcasts on the Ethernet segment, such as DHCP discovery requests, and of course it can't shield them from any non-IP datagrams that reach their NICs.
The IP shielding may eliminate some necessary NetBIOS functionality -- local name queries broadcast over UDP come to mind. I don't know much about Microsoft Networking but I assume a WINS server could provide the same capabilities.