RE: unswitched behavior of a switched network...

[Tonnerre Lombard <tonnerre.lombard () sygroup ch>]

Salut,

On Sat, 2006-10-14 at 07:52 -0400, Michael Scheidell wrote:
> In fact, you will always see broadcasts, ipx, multicast, vrrp, CDP and
> other type messages on all ports.

This is not 100% true. There are switches which are capable of
intercepting and handling multicast joins, so they only send multicast
to the corresponding group members.

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