From: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
To: david@lang.hm
Cc: alex@digriz.org.uk, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: When does Linux drop UDP packets?
Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2009 14:13:48 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090625061348.GA31407@gondor.apana.org.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.10.0906242236400.28437@asgard.lang.hm>
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.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-06-25 6:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-06-04 14:53 Philipp Reh
2009-06-04 15:57 ` Steven Rostedt
[not found] ` <20090604161015.GA17303@miyuki>
[not found] ` <alpine.DEB.2.00.0906041222450.14994@gandalf.stny.rr.com>
2009-06-04 16:34 ` Steven Rostedt
2009-06-04 16:57 ` Steven Rostedt
2009-06-04 17:46 ` Jaswinder Singh Rajput
2009-06-04 21:07 ` Steven Rostedt
2009-06-04 17:57 ` david
2009-06-04 18:44 ` Eric Dumazet
2009-06-04 18:49 ` david
2009-06-11 23:40 ` Nifty niftylinkern Mitch
2009-06-04 22:03 ` Alexander Clouter
2009-06-04 23:19 ` david
2009-06-05 19:10 ` Alexander Clouter
2009-06-05 19:15 ` david
2009-06-05 19:29 ` Alexander Clouter
2009-06-24 7:47 ` Herbert Xu
2009-06-25 4:32 ` david
2009-06-25 5:00 ` Herbert Xu
2009-06-25 5:37 ` david
2009-06-25 6:13 ` Herbert Xu [this message]
2009-06-25 7:38 ` Alexander Clouter
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