Gert Doering wrote: > Hi, > > On Thu, Jul 05, 2007 at 04:05:24PM +0100, Stephen Wilcox wrote: > >> your LAN would need to be very large or very unusual for you to see this as >> a problem
One case where I've seen this cause more issues than just plain traffic is with centralized syslog servers. If it's a dedicated box, it will rarely, if ever, transmit a packet; it's simply a sinkhole for UDP syslog. So you can count on your every switch between the remote clients and the server (or at least the last L3 hop) to be broadcasting the traffic. Another concern in that case is it makes it 'trivial' to sniff the traffic (if you're on the same subnet as the server). The same "one-way" traffic scenario holds for other traffic as well (SNMP traps, UDP-streaming media, etc). Jeff _______________________________________________ cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected] https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/
