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Question about broadcast traffic across vLans

I have a question about vlans and broadcast traffic.    

I have two vLans setup vlan70 and vlan75.   I have a route between them so they can communicate with each other.
They both have different /24 subnets so broadcast traffic on vlan70 would be 192.168.50.255 and on vlan75 192.168.60.255

If I do a "ping 192.168.60.255 -b"  (broadcast) from a linux machine on on vlan70 (192.168.50.47/24) should I see the broadcasts on vlan75?
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Technically no, but do you?
Perhaps the broadcast flag changes it to pure broadcast destination of 255.255.255.255
Yes you would see it. You're performing an ip-directed broadcast by sending that ping from another subnet.
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