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SubjectRe: When does Linux drop UDP packets?
david@lang.hm wrote:
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> 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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