NETWORK LAYER
UNICAST ROUTING
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Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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send packets to no one on the network
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send packets to some host in the network
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send packets to one hosts in the network
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send packets to all hosts in the network
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Detailed explanation-1: -Broadcast traffic is used to send packets to all hosts in the network using the broadcast address for the network. With a broadcast, the packet contains a destination IP address with all ones (1s) in the host portion.
Detailed explanation-2: -Broadcast Packet is an Internet Protocol (IP) packet with the IP address 255.255. 255.255. In binary notation, this represents a series of 32 binary «ones». Broadcast Packet. A broadcast packet is sent over the network of computers and picked up by all hosts on the local subnet.
Detailed explanation-3: -A broadcast address is a network address used to transmit to all devices connected to a multiple-access communications network. A message sent to a broadcast address may be received by all network-attached hosts.
Detailed explanation-4: -The broadcast address is always identified in the final part of the host part of an address (starts in the third or fourth octet): If all host bits are set to the binary value “1”, this is the broadcast address. If all host bits are set to the value “0”, this is the subnet address.