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NATIONALINSTITUTEOFSCIENCE&TECHNOLOGY
Manas Ranjan Panda
Technical Seminar Presentation - 2004
INTRODUCTION
The TCP/IP family includes four types of distribution of apacket from a single host:
Unicast
:
To one host
Normal IP- traffic
The packet is seen only by the receiving host
Broadcast :
To all hosts on a network
When trying to find another host
The packet is seen by all hosts on the local network