Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 24 Jun 2009 22:37:14 -0700 (PDT) | From | david@lang ... | Subject | Re: When does Linux drop UDP packets? |
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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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