Broadcasts are not necessarily bad.
How do you suppose ARP works? Not to mention all the things that make life
under windows so enjoyable? Such as network browsing?
Do not be so hasty. Understand first.
How many servers? How many pc's? all on one flat network? No VLANs or
inter-vlan routing?
Chuck
Once worked in a brokerage firm where during market hours 90% of my traffic
was broadcast - and a good thing, too!
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of
Infotech
Sent: Thursday, April 12, 2001 10:17 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Too many broadcasts [7:453]
Dear Group,
I have a small query:
Is it advisable to disable broadcast on all the ports of switches. I have 3
catalyst series 6509/5500/5505 in my network running all the WINNT servers
4.0
with all win98/win95 as clients. With the help of CWSI I have observed that
many a times the broadcast increases very much & I experience lot of
response
delay in my network.
can I use the command:
switch> (enable)# set port broadcast 0%
Will this put any impact on my network like nodes won't be able to talk to
server ....or problem in finding the servers. I have also created VLAN's in
my
network to limit the broadcasts. Should I doit on all the ports...
many thanks in advance
HP
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