lots of broadcast traffic hitting my server

[Valen]

I'm noticing on my VPS theres rather a large amount of broadcast and arp traffic hitting my machine.
Is all this traffic getting counted against my quota?

I'm seeing
arp
dhcp
cisco router protocol
ms network loadbalancing
netbios traffic
windows network browser announcments
DEC DNA remote console
ms sql service registry

and thats just a summary of 10 seconds worth

[Aaron]

Hi Valen,

This is due to other VPS accounts in the same VLAN sending broadcast traffic.

This traffic is not counted towards your bandwidth limit, so not something to worry about!

Originally Posted by Valen

I'm noticing on my VPS theres rather a large amount of broadcast and arp traffic hitting my machine.
Is all this traffic getting counted against my quota?

I'm seeing
arp
dhcp
cisco router protocol
ms network loadbalancing
netbios traffic
windows network browser announcments
DEC DNA remote console
ms sql service registry

and thats just a summary of 10 seconds worth

[nemesis]

Originally Posted by Aaron

This traffic is not counted towards your bandwidth limit, so not something to worry about!

Hmmm, it seems that this traffic is actually counting towards my bandwidth limit. I just got a hypervm email saying that my vm "is using 96% of quota for traffic_usage".

Hypervm records that I'm receiving traffic to my vm, constantly, at a rate of about 10kb/s. `tcpdump -i eth0` shows that almost all of that 10kb/s is random broadcast traffic, unrelated to my vm.

[Aaron]

Originally Posted by nemesis

Hmmm, it seems that this traffic is actually counting towards my bandwidth limit. I just got a hypervm email saying that my vm "is using 96% of quota for traffic_usage".

Hypervm records that I'm receiving traffic to my vm, constantly, at a rate of about 10kb/s. `tcpdump -i eth0` shows that almost all of that 10kb/s is random broadcast traffic, unrelated to my vm.

While HyperVM is counting it towards your limit, we do not bill you for that traffic so it is not something to worry about