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Broadcast Address

Vangie Beal
Last Updated May 24, 2021 7:36 am
By Vangie Beal
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A special type of networking address that is reserved for sending messages to all machines on a given network segment. Generally, a broadcast address is a MAC destination address of all F’s.

Vangie Beal
Vangie Beal

Vangie Beal is a freelance business and technology writer covering Internet technologies and online business since the late '90s.

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