When these problems occur, the network you usually call on to solve problems will be very slow or it has stopped working.?
Some important facts to remember:
- Broadcasts are not forwarded by routers.
- Broadcasts are not forwarded between VLANs (this is why VLANs are called broadcast domains), so every VLAN is a broadcast domain by itself.
- Error packets are not forwarded by LAN switches, such as packets with the wrong CRC, packets smaller than the minimum size of 64 bytes, and so on.
- Multicasts are forwarded through switches unless configured otherwise.
- Multicasts are forwarded through routers only if the routers are configured to do so.
- A reasonable number of broadcasts are transmitted in every network. This is how networks work, ...