Broadcast traffic, in computer networking, is traffic that is simultaneously addressed to all computers connected to the network, as opposed to unicast or multicast traffic. This is in contrast to the model SLP offers.
In TCP/IP networking (layer 3 on the OSI Model), the highest possible address in the IP network range is reserved as the broadcast address - for example in the network 192.168.0.0/24 (192.168.0.xxx with subnet mask 255.255.255.0) the broadcast address is 192.168.0.255.
In MAC addressing (layer 2 on the OSI model), the broadcast address is the MAC address FF:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF, otherwise known as the "all F" address.
Packets (layer 3) or frames (layer 2) sent to the broadcast address will be sent to all nodes within the broadcast domain.
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