Re: When does Linux drop UDP packets?

[Herbert Xu]

On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 10:37:14PM -0700, david@xxxxxxx wrote:
>
> please explain more? how do they differ?

An IGMP-snooping switch will only forward multicast traffic to
ports that have subscribed to that group.  Broadcast traffic
on the otherhand is forwarded to all ports.

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