18 Feb
2011
18 Feb
'11
11:55 a.m.
Phil Mayers <p.mayers@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.