[gentoo-user] Re: Link-local ipv6 address in /etc/hosts? in browsers?

[Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards@gmail.com>]

On 2012-01-19, Michael Mol <mikemol@gmail.com> wrote:

>>> Do you really want that much broadcast and wide multicast (think
>>> DNS-SD and NTP in multicast mode) traffic on the same Ethernet
>>> segment?
>>
>> That bit I don't understand. ??It's no worse that ARP, and we seem to
>> live with that quite easily.
>
> Not just arp, but actual broadcast/multicast data. If you've ever run
> PulseAudio and enabled network sources and sinks on a couple boxes,
> you might have accidentally discovered an easy way to bring a wireless
> network to its knees. And that's just something I've had personal
> experience with. Come to think of it, that's a good reason I should
> continue to keep my home wired and wireless networks on separate
> subnets, and not simply bridged as I'd done at the time.

I don't understand what that has to do with L-L address support in
applications.

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