Phil Mayers <p.may...@imperial.ac.uk> wrote: > >> How do you deal with excessive broadcast protocols? > > We do nothing. We used to be very worried about this, but in practice > we've found it's a non-existent problem. The world isn't > 10Mbit/half-duplex ethernet any more ;o) > ...it supposedly nukes the ability for workstations to do power saving (broadcast packets are always processed kernel land) and as broadcast/multicast is limited to the lowest common denominator speed for wireless network's, it can have a pained effect (no doubt most places are still set at 1Mbps).
500 Windows workstations on my local LAN would annoy my NO_HZ laptop :) Cheers -- Alexander Clouter .sigmonster says: Your present plans will be successful. - List info/subscribe/unsubscribe? See http://www.freeradius.org/list/users.html
