Re: When does Linux drop UDP packets?

[david]

On Thu, 25 Jun 2009, Herbert Xu wrote:

> david@xxxxxxx wrote:
> > given that each subnet will be a minimum of 4 IP addresses (the network
> > address, two useable, and thr broadcast address), putting each machine on
> > it's own subnet and routing between them on the switch would be very
> > wasteful of addresses.
>
> What I mean is that if you have snooping switches then multicasts
> and broadcasts are not the same even when you're on the same subnet.

please explain more? how do they differ?

David Lang
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/