Re: Multi-Networking in Linux - Multiple Subnets

Jim Jackson <[email protected]> Mon, 3 Aug 2026 17:15:43 -0000 (UTC)
Newsgroups comp.os.linux.misc
Organization A noiseless patient Spider
Message-ID <[email protected]>
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> No one with a sane mind will run a /18 in a single broadcast domain.
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Indeed. In fact I found it quite a handfull running a large IPv4 /22 
with about ~600 active machines on one LAN with IPv4 was quite something.

We were introducing IPv6, but I retired before the traffic was mostly 
IPv6. But IPv6's design can make it possible to run LANs with a lot more 
active machines, as instead of broadcast, it makes use of Multicast services.