On Jul 31, 2013, at 10:36 AM, Rick Jones <[email protected]> wrote: > 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?
Yes. > 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? Also yes. :-) Folks with lots of unique source addresses in a collision domain tend to pay attention to frequent broadcast-to-all traffic. Regards, -- -Chuck _______________________________________________ questions mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ntp.org/listinfo/questions
