Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754701AbZFDWIY (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Jun 2009 18:08:24 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752163AbZFDWIQ (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Jun 2009 18:08:16 -0400 Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:43914 "EHLO ciao.gmane.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752065AbZFDWIP (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Jun 2009 18:08:15 -0400 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Alexander Clouter Subject: Re: When does Linux drop UDP packets? Date: Thu, 4 Jun 2009 23:03:23 +0100 Message-ID: References: <20090604145347.GA27692@miyuki> X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: woodchuck.wormnet.eu User-Agent: tin/1.9.3-20080506 ("Dalintober") (UNIX) (Linux/2.6.26-1-sparc64 (sparc64)) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 967 Lines: 22 Philipp Reh wrote: > > I have the following setting in which a client that resides on the same > physical network as a server wants to receive any UDP packet that > arrives on any of its interfaces sent by that server. > Read up about multicasting, it will do what you want, does not depend on the IP address of the destination workstation and will also cross subnets if you want it to. It's dead easy to transmit and receive multicast traffic, broadcasting network traffic is so 1980's :) > As I'm not yet subscribed to the list, please CC me directly. > Have a look at GMANE for following large volumn mailing lists. Cheers -- Alexander Clouter .sigmonster says: Familiarity breeds attempt. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/