COMPUTER NETWORKS AND COMMUNICATIONS
NETWORK TOPOLOGIES AND PROTOCOLS
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It means addressing a packet to all machine
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It means addressing a packet to some machine
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It means addressing a packet to a particular machine
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It means addressing a packet to except a particular machine
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Detailed explanation-1: -In computer networking, broadcasting refers to transmitting a packet that will be received by every device on the network.
Detailed explanation-2: -July 2018. A terrestrial network (or broadcast network in the United States) is a group of radio stations, television stations, or other electronic media outlets, that form an agreement to air, or broadcast, content from a centralized source.
Detailed explanation-3: -It means addressing a packet to all machine.
Detailed explanation-4: -A network switch connects devices in a network to each other, enabling them to talk by exchanging data packets. Switches can be hardware devices that manage physical networks or software-based virtual devices. A network switch operates on the data-link layer, or Layer 2, of the Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) model.
Detailed explanation-5: -With a broadcast, the packet contains a destination IP address with all ones (1s) in the host portion. This means that all hosts on that local network (broadcast domain) will receive and look at the packet. Many network protocols, such as DHCP, use broadcasts.