multicast

What is the difference between unicast, anycast, broadcast and multicast traffic?

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Simply put: ———————————————————— | TYPE | ASSOCIATIONS | SCOPE | EXAMPLE | ———————————————————— | Unicast | 1 to 1 | Whole network | HTTP | ———————————————————— | Broadcast | 1 to Many | Subnet | ARP | ———————————————————— | Multicast | One/Many to Many | Defined horizon | SLP | ———————————————————— | Anycast | Many … Read more

Will setting a multicast destination address to FFFF.FFFF.FFFF make it a broadcast?

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I’m working with a device that sends out UDP packets on a multicast address, however I see some packets addressed to the multicast group IP with a MAC address of FFFF.FFFF.FFFF. From what I’ve read my best guess is that this is an attempt to do a network wide broadcast from the multicast group. Here’s … Read more