Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 25 Jun 2009 14:13:48 +0800 | From | Herbert Xu <> | Subject | Re: When does Linux drop UDP packets? |
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On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 10:37:14PM -0700, david@lang.hm 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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