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...

An Internet Protocol address (IP address) is a numerical label such as 192.0.2.1 that is assigned to a device connected to a computer network that uses...

A MAC address (short for medium access control address) is a unique identifier assigned to a network interface controller (NIC) for use as a network address...

representation, this address is reserved. The last address has all host bits set to 1. It is used as a local broadcast address for sending messages to...

128.0.0/24 ranges will be broadcast to all ports on many Ethernet switches, even if IGMP snooping is enabled, so addresses within these ranges should...

100.255 as the subnet broadcast address. The IPv6 address specification 2001:db8::/32 is a large address block with 296 addresses, having a 32-bit routing...

using the destination address 255.255.255.255 (limited broadcast) or the specific subnet broadcast address (directed broadcast). A DHCP client may also...

mechanism for mapping IP addresses to link-layer addresses (e.g. MAC addresses), because it does not support the broadcast addressing method, on which the...

checks the destination address of each frame, and simply ignores any frame not addressed to its own MAC address or the broadcast address. Switches act as buffers...

available host addresses is usually reduced by two, namely the largest address, which is reserved as the broadcast address, and the smallest address, which identifies...