Broadcast over Vlans

[cristian123]

Hello,

i have the folowing setup:
One linux box -router on a stick- (debian), one catalyst 2950, 2 vlan.
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| R | (Ip_forward 1, -P INPUT, OUTPUT, FORWARD ACCEPT)
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|_2950|----Vlan20
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Vlan10

I have an application in vlan10 that generates the folowing packet:
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1261/...1b6c49b8_o.jpg
The client must see the broadcast, in order to connect to the server.
The ping, works..
How can i do that?

[cyberinstru]

he client must see the broadcast, in order to connect to the server.

1. What type of socket you have created?

2. Is the client using INADDR_ANY or its interface ip to receive broadcast packets?

[cristian123]

1. What type of socket you have created?

2. Is the client using INADDR_ANY or its interface ip to receive broadcast packets?

The Client side and the server side are WINDOWS.

[w3tw3r3]

broadcasts are only transmitted to the broadcast domain- in this case the local subnet. it is possible to configure some routers to forward broadcast packets. not sure if this functionality is avalible on a layer3 switch that has implemeted VLAN's.

basically check the router and the switch for this functionality.