[VLAN] broadcasts go where?

[Ben Greear]

Carlos Carvalho wrote:
> I have a single ethernet card configured as eth0. I also have many
> vlans on it, eth0.1, eth0.2, etc. All of them have the same IP and
> netmask. The choice of interface through which to send packets is done
> by routing:
> 
>   IP     iface
>   1      eth0.4
>   2      eth0.10
>   3      eth0.1
>   4      eth0
> 
> etc. The default route is eth0.
> 
> When I send a broadcast will it go to all vlans or only to eth0?

If it's tagged, it will be received on the vlan with that tag, otherwise to
eth0.  If you are sending out, then it will only go out one interface.

Ben

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