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Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2009 22:37:14 -0700 (PDT) From: david@...g.hm To: Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au> cc: alex@...riz.org.uk, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: When does Linux drop UDP packets? On Thu, 25 Jun 2009, Herbert Xu wrote: > david@...g.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 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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