Re:This LAN party will not work
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Million Man LAN
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With VLANs you still need to route, thank you for a legitimate response.
This LAN party will not work
on
Million Man LAN
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· Score: 1
If there are going to be around 5000 people on the same LAN(even if they are switched), the lag would be horrible. You have to consider the protocols being used. To check for a local server on the LAN, a user needs to broadcast at layer 3 on the OSI model and get around the switches. That means that every time someone looks for the local server, they are going to be broadcasting to 4,999 other people. Do the math. Also, if they have an Internet connection they are going to be creating even more layer 3 traffic that will get broadcasted out all of the ports on the switches. You also have to realize that most people who don't much about networking are not going to disable other protocols that will be running(NEBIOS,IPX, ETC. This is even worse than the traffic from TCP/IP. Ethernet standards suggest about 500 users tops in the same broadcast domain. The only way this could work is if you were to use routers and different networks. This would then negate the LAN party and make it a WAN party. Just a thought.
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With VLANs you still need to route, thank you for a legitimate response.
If there are going to be around 5000 people on the same LAN(even if they are switched), the lag would be horrible. You have to consider the protocols being used. To check for a local server on the LAN, a user needs to broadcast at layer 3 on the OSI model and get around the switches. That means that every time someone looks for the local server, they are going to be broadcasting to 4,999 other people. Do the math. Also, if they have an Internet connection they are going to be creating even more layer 3 traffic that will get broadcasted out all of the ports on the switches. You also have to realize that most people who don't much about networking are not going to disable other protocols that will be running(NEBIOS,IPX, ETC. This is even worse than the traffic from TCP/IP. Ethernet standards suggest about 500 users tops in the same broadcast domain. The only way this could work is if you were to use routers and different networks. This would then negate the LAN party and make it a WAN party. Just a thought.