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In telecommunication and information theory, broadcasting refers to transmitting a message to all recipients simultaneously within a network. Broadcasting is used primarily in local area networks like Ethernet and sends packets to every device on the network using a broadcast address. While broadcasting is confined to local networks for performance reasons, multicasting provides a similar one-to-many transmission but limits recipients to those who join the specific multicast group.

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Broadcasting (Networking) : Single Source

In telecommunication and information theory, broadcasting refers to transmitting a message to all recipients simultaneously within a network. Broadcasting is used primarily in local area networks like Ethernet and sends packets to every device on the network using a broadcast address. While broadcasting is confined to local networks for performance reasons, multicasting provides a similar one-to-many transmission but limits recipients to those who join the specific multicast group.

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Broadcasting (networking)

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Not to be confused with Broadcasting.

This article relies largely or entirely upon a single source. Relevant


discussion may be found on the talk page. Please help improve this
article by introducing citations to additional sources. (September 2010)
It has been suggested that All-to-all communication be merged into this
article. (Discuss) Proposed since July 2014.

In telecommunication and information theory, broadcasting refers to a method of transferring a


message to all recipients simultaneously. Broadcasting can be performed as a high level operation
in a program, for example broadcasting Message Passing Interface, or it may be a low level
networking operation, for example broadcasting on Ethernet.

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 1 Overview
 2 See also
 3 References
 4 External links

Overview[edit]
Routing schemes

anycast

broadcast
multicast

unicast

geocast

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In computer networking, broadcasting refers to transmitting a packet that will be received by every


device on the network.[1] In practice, the scope of the broadcast is limited to a broadcast domain.
Broadcast a message is in contrast to unicast addressing in which a host sends datagrams to
another single host identified by a unique IP address.
Not all network technologies support broadcast addressing; for example, neither X.25 nor frame
relay have broadcast capability, nor is there any form of Internet-wide broadcast. Broadcasting is
largely confined to local area network (LAN) technologies, most notably Ethernet and token ring,
where the performance impact of broadcasting is not as large as it would be in a wide area network.
The successor to Internet Protocol Version 4 (IPv4), IPv6 also does not implement the broadcast
method, so as to prevent disturbing all nodes in a network when only a few may be interested in a
particular service. Instead it relies on multicast addressing - a conceptually similar one-to-
many routing methodology. However, multicasting limits the pool of receivers to those that join a
specific multicast receiver group.
Both Ethernet and IPv4 use an all-ones broadcast address to indicate a broadcast packet. Token
Ring uses a special value in the IEEE 802.2 control field.
Broadcasting may be abused to perform a type of DoS-attack known as a Smurf attack. The attacker
sends fake ping requests with the source IP-address of the victim computer. The victim computer is
flooded by the replies from all computers in the domain.

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