Charles Swiger <[email protected]> wrote: > On Jul 31, 2013, at 10:36 AM, Rick Jones <[email protected]> wrote:
> > 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. But unless the broadcast-to-all traffic elicits responses (and if I recall correctly, broadcast NTP traffic does not), it will not cause the switch(es) to see any additional source addresses beyond that of the system sending the broadcasts. rick -- No need to believe in either side, or any side. There is no cause. There's only yourself. The belief is in your own precision. - Joubert 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
