[Users] Broadcast traffic on veth interfaces

[Vitaliy Gusev]

On 5 February 2009 18:26:05 Jason Voorhees wrote:
> Hi people:
> 
> I'm a newbie in OpenVZ world yet. With a little help of Google and
> OpenVZ wiki I understood that it's necessary to use veth instead of
> venet to be able to deal with broadcast traffic in a VE. This is true,
> right?
> So I created the corresponding veth to my VE and attached it to a
> bridge. Now my VE has an eth0 interface, it has its own IP address and
> works nicely: send and receive ICMP messages (with ping), I can get
> into VE trough SSH, etc.
> 
> But I can see that broadcast traffic isn't working very well yet. My
> VE is running a Samba server but I can't find its netbios name (from
> the HN) using nmblookup. Also from the VE I can't find any netbios
> host in my network using nmblookup except the VE host itself.
> 
> I followed the steps of the wiki:
> http://wiki.openvz.org/Veth#Virtual_Ethernet_devices_can_be_joined_in_one_bridge
> 
> Do I need to do anything else in my OpenVZ environment?


I think it is enough. What say a tcpdump in host and in VE?
Please also check iptables rules.



> 
> Kernel: 2.6.18-92.1.18.el5.028stab060.2
> vzctl version: vzctl version 3.0.23
> 
> Any help would be appreciated. Thanks, bye
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Thank,
Vitaliy Gusev