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SubjectRe: When does Linux drop UDP packets?
On Thu, 25 Jun 2009, Herbert Xu wrote:

> 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.

please explain more? how do they differ?

David Lang


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