January 2008
Intermediate to advanced
624 pages
14h 16m
English
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IP Broadcast Addresses
IP broadcast addresses are used for single-packet one-to-everyone delivery. A sending host addresses the IP packet using a broadcast address and every node on the sending node’s network segment receives and processes the packet. IP broadcast addresses can be used only as the destination IP address.
There are four different types of IP broadcast addresses. For each type, the broadcast IP packet is addressed at the Network Interface Layer using the network technology’s broadcast address. For example, for Ethernet and Token Ring networks, all IP broadcasts are sent using the Ethernet and Token Ring broadcast address 0xFF-FF-FF-FF-FF-FF.
Network Broadcast
The IP network broadcast address is the address formed by setting all the ...