Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755603AbZFYGNz (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 Jun 2009 02:13:55 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750775AbZFYGNt (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 Jun 2009 02:13:49 -0400 Received: from rhun.apana.org.au ([64.62.148.172]:60341 "EHLO arnor.apana.org.au" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750731AbZFYGNs (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 Jun 2009 02:13:48 -0400 Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2009 14:13:48 +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: <20090625061348.GA31407@gondor.apana.org.au> References: <20090625050052.GA30594@gondor.apana.org.au> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: 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: 741 Lines: 19 On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 10:37:14PM -0700, david@lang.hm wrote: > > please explain more? how do they differ? An IGMP-snooping switch will only forward multicast traffic to ports that have subscribed to that group. Broadcast traffic on the otherhand is forwarded to all ports. 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/