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DropBroadcasts

drops link-level broadcast and multicast packets

SYNOPSIS§

DropBroadcasts

Batching: Batching natively supported
Ports: 1 input, 1-2 outputs
Processing: agnostic, but output 1 is push

DESCRIPTION§

Drop packets that arrived as link-level broadcast or multicast. Used to implement the requirement that IP routers not forward link-level broadcasts. Looks at the packet_type_anno annotation, which FromDevice sets.

SEE ALSO§

FromDevice

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