Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755390AbZFYFBB (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 Jun 2009 01:01:01 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751018AbZFYFAx (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 Jun 2009 01:00:53 -0400 Received: from rhun.apana.org.au ([64.62.148.172]:50552 "EHLO arnor.apana.org.au" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750731AbZFYFAx (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 Jun 2009 01:00:53 -0400 Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2009 13:00:52 +0800 From: Herbert Xu To: david@lang.hm Cc: alex@digriz.org.uk, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: When does Linux drop UDP packets? Message-ID: <20090625050052.GA30594@gondor.apana.org.au> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Organization: Core X-Newsgroups: apana.lists.os.linux.kernel User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 872 Lines: 21 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. Cheers, -- Visit Openswan at http://www.openswan.org/ Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt -- 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/