Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755460AbZFYFho (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 Jun 2009 01:37:44 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750893AbZFYFhb (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 Jun 2009 01:37:31 -0400 Received: from mail.lang.hm ([64.81.33.126]:59593 "EHLO bifrost.lang.hm" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1759087AbZFYFhW (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 Jun 2009 01:37:22 -0400 Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2009 22:37:14 -0700 (PDT) From: david@lang.hm X-X-Sender: dlang@asgard.lang.hm To: Herbert Xu cc: alex@digriz.org.uk, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: When does Linux drop UDP packets? In-Reply-To: <20090625050052.GA30594@gondor.apana.org.au> Message-ID: References: <20090625050052.GA30594@gondor.apana.org.au> User-Agent: Alpine 1.10 (DEB 962 2008-03-14) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 756 Lines: 20 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 -- 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/