Am 21.11.2010 03:01, schrieb Chris Buechler: > A broadcast domain is the layer 2 segregation of the network. If > you're not using VLANs, and have one switch, you have one broadcast > domain. The broadcast address is different, but those broadcasts all > go to every device. In the case of buggy phone firmware maybe they > don't listen to the broadcast address on other subnets, but they're > still receiving those broadcasts and still on the same broadcast > domain. > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broadcast_domain
Ah, yes, that's right. Technically spoken, of course all ethernet packages that go through the wire will hit the NICs of the devices connected to the wire (that's L2). But the logic (= firmware, IP stack) of the device will only answer those broadcasts that belong to the L3 subnet the NIC is member of. In my case the problem is really the answering of the phones to the Windows broadcasts which results in a slow responiveness of the phone user interface. Regards Karsten -- Karsten Becker Head of Information Technology Ecologic Institute Berlin - Brussels - Vienna - Washington DC Pfalzburger Strasse 43/44 | 10717 Berlin | Germany Tel. +49 (30) 86880-0 | Fax +49 (30) 86880-100 http://www.ecologic.eu/ | http://www.ecologic-events.eu/ Ecologic Institute publishes a monthly newsletter. To subscribe, please register at: http://www.ecologic.eu/subscribe.htm - - - Ecologic Institut gemeinnuetzige GmbH GF/Director: R. Andreas Kraemer | AG Charlottenburg HRB 57947 | USt/VAT-IdNr. DE811963464 'Ecologic' is a Trade Mark (TM) of Ecologic Institut gemeinnuetzige GmbH, Berlin. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: support-unsubscr...@pfsense.com For additional commands, e-mail: support-h...@pfsense.com Commercial support available - https://portal.pfsense.org
