Hash username or mac address to assign user to different vlan

[Alexander Clouter]

Phil Mayers <p.mayers at 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
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