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2022 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
6. Broadcasts in Details
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Abstract
Back to my school days, each classroom would have a speaker that was connected to the broadcast control room, and whenever there was something important to announce, there would be a broadcast to notify everyone in the school. The same mechanism is widely used in computer science. If you’re familiar with computer networking and communication, you should know that in IP address, the highest number is used for broadcast address. For instance, if a network’s IP range is among 192.168.0.XXX, the subnet mask is 255.255.255.0, then the broadcast address for this network is 192.168.0.255. The broadcast packet will be sent to all the end points of the same network, then all the host machines in this network will receive this broadcast.