Salut and Suspend/Resume issues

Tue Feb 19 12:11:38 EST 2008

On Tue, 2008-02-19 at 10:02 -0500, John Watlington wrote:
> We ALWAYS have multicast traffic.   Blindly waking on each
> received multicast packet will ensure that we only sleep for
> milliseconds.

What is all this multicast traffic?
If I am sitting idle on the network, why is there constant multicast
traffic being sent to me?

I would expect broadcasts for activity share notifications and "Hi, I'm
new" announcements, but those should be infrequent.

--Ben