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From: geoff@plan9.bell-labs.com
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] configuring ipv6
Date: Thu,  5 Oct 2006 14:22:45 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <685e1933f230a2063fd5530110190886@plan9.bell-labs.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20061005110918.F80884@orthanc.ca>

I'm not even sure that there's much of an efficiency difference any
more.  In a modern wired Ethernet, with each machine on its own switch
port, you should only see unicast traffic destined for you, multicast
traffic and broadcast traffic.  Perhaps on wireless networks there
would be a non-trivial difference.



      reply	other threads:[~2006-10-05 18:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-10-04 23:22 Lyndon Nerenberg
2006-10-04 23:28 ` geoff
2006-10-05  2:32   ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2006-10-05 15:57     ` geoff
2006-10-05 18:13       ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2006-10-05 18:22         ` geoff [this message]

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