Re: Ethernet Polling vs Broadcasting on an Embedded device

From: arya (arya.junkmail_at_gmail.com)
Date: 03/01/05 

Date: 28 Feb 2005 18:02:26 -0800

If you're looking to make these battery powered nodes (which is quite
probable since you might not have a/c power everywhere), it might be
better to have the nodes send the message when they wake up. Generally,
polling is a waste of bandwidth unless you are trying to reduce the
latency afforded by being able to ping only the devices that you wish
to hear from.

-- arya