Re: When does Linux drop UDP packets?

[Alexander Clouter]

Philipp Reh <sefi@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> I have the following setting in which a client that resides on the same
> physical network as a server wants to receive any UDP packet that
> arrives on any of its interfaces sent by that server.
> 
Read up about multicasting, it will do what you want, does not depend on
the IP address of the destination workstation and will also cross 
subnets if you want it to.

It's dead easy to transmit and receive multicast traffic, broadcasting 
network traffic is so 1980's :)

> As I'm not yet subscribed to the list, please CC me directly.
> 
Have a look at GMANE for following large volumn mailing lists.

Cheers

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Alexander Clouter
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