Charles Swiger <[email protected]> wrote: > If you have a small # of machines per collision domain, then > broadcasting frequently probably won't matter. If you've got > thousands or tens of thousands of machines to deal with, and need to > pay attention to the MAC table sizes of your various switches and > routers, then excessive broadcast traffic is a much more significant > concern.
We are talking about the server broadcasting right? Issues of filling the forwarding (what I think you are calling the MAC) table on a switch is a matter of how many unique source MAC addresses the switch sees, not how many broadcasts a server sends no? rick jones -- oxymoron n, commuter in a gas-guzzling luxury SUV with an American flag these opinions are mine, all mine; HP might not want them anyway... :) feel free to post, OR email to rick.jones2 in hp.com but NOT BOTH... _______________________________________________ questions mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ntp.org/listinfo/questions
