31 Jul
1997
31 Jul
'97
4:39 a.m.
A cheap solution for routers who are not expected to forward LAN broadcast packets is to put a host route in the router to route packets to the broadcast address to null0. This reduces the per packet overhead of an access list and silently discards these bad packets.
Aren't packets sent to null0 process switched? Alex Bligh Xara Networks