Re: broadcast address of a network interface
Re: broadcast address of a network interface
- Subject: Re: broadcast address of a network interface
- From: Joel Reymont <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2009 21:29:33 +0000
Going back to the beginning of this thread...
On Feb 9, 2009, at 4:35 PM, Jens Alfke wrote:
using IP broadcast is strongly discouraged, because it causes every
single machine on the subnet to spend time receiving and parsing the
packet, whether or not it's interested. It scales really badly to
busy networks.
Since my intent is for this app to be used on small (W)LANs and given
that it's unlikely to scale to busy networks because of Bonjour, why
not regular UDP broadcast?
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