Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 25 Jun 2009 13:00:52 +0800 | From | Herbert Xu <> | Subject | Re: When does Linux drop UDP packets? |
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david@lang.hm 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.
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