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`Broadcast
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`Any packet destined for all stations on a network segment is considered broadcast traffic.
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`Broadcast addresses are usually used by ARP, DHCP, and other protocols that do some sort of discovery.
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`Ethernet (and other 802.x networks)
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`Ethernet has designated the all-ones address (ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff) for broadcast traffic; this is used for other 802.x networks as
`well.
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`IPv4
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`Similarly, the all-ones IP address (255.255.255.255) is broadcast. If the host portion of an IP address is all ones (e.g. if
`the address is 192.168.0.255 and the netmask is 255.255.255.0), that address is also a broadcast address.
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`The broadcast IP address in the early days were 0.0.0.0, but was a long time ago, and zeroes are no longer used in the
`wildcard section of broadcast addresses.
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`IPv6
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`There are no broadcast IPv6 addresses - RFC 2373 states "There are no broadcast addresses in IPv6, their function being
`superseded by multicast addresses."
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`See Also
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`Multicast, Unicast
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`Discussion
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`Broadcast (last edited 2008-04-12 17:50:13 by localhost)
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`https://wiki.wireshark.org/Broadcast
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