On Sep 11, 2006, at 12:18 PM, Philippe Hanset wrote:
It has been mentioned that devices with less potent CPUs have a harder time to deal with big broadcast traffic. (our Cisco SE likes to remind me about that. Is it to sell a LWAPP system, or is it a fact?)
Um, I seem to recall huge subnets on thinnet with what would now be considered ancient cpu's working fine in yesteryear.
If you have other measures that one can use to reduce Broadcast, please share with the list.
Private vlans + proxy arp. You could make each building a private vlan knowing that traffic between those vlans would be very small. You could proxy-arp at the router to enable those hosts to talk to each other. Some AP's can let you disable multicast support, but some edge switches support ACL's where you could prune multicast or broadcast packets to your liking. I don't have enough time to debate multicast over wireless ;-) Dale ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/.
