User Documentation
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Planning
Broadcast address
The broadcast address is a special address that includes every PC within a
specied network.
In each case the last address of the host part is used as the broadcast address of
a network.
Example: 192.168.0.255
Never specify a broadcast address as an address for an individual
PC, otherwise various network functionalities will simply not work!
Broadcast
A broadcast is used to obtain recipient addresses from
still unknown devices from the network. Data packets
are sent to all switches and all these then report back
providing the sender with an overview of the devices in
its network.
A device in the network sends its data packets to the
entire network.
Multicast
With Multicast, the user has the option of selecting a
group of recipients that are to be supplied with the data
packets.
Unicast
With Unicast, the data packets to be transferred are
sent only to the one desired recipient.