Why does UDP network throughput increase significantly when sending to an IP address with no host listening?

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Issue

  • Network performance increased dramatically when the destination IP address was set to an IP address that did not have any system listening to it.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)

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