- broadcasts incoming to a VE are dropped
- outgoing broadcasts gone to the HWN like to the router and not routed
further as usual, so you'll see nothing in eth0. This is normal. The
interface if point-to-point so other VEs do not see this packet.

Regards,
	Den

On Thu, 2008-05-29 at 16:06 -0400, Zhaohui Wang wrote:
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> Any one knows the internal mechanism for broadcast messages on venet0?
> Virtuozzo Networking - venet0 Mode
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> When I try ping -b 192.168.1.255 inside the ve,I got know
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> nothing on eth0.When I do the samething outside VE,at least tcpdump
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> some threads talking about venet0:0,someone said it¢s a bug,other said
> it¢s designed like this for Debian based templates.Is just an
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> Zhaohui Wang
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