DHCP messages are transmitted over IPv4 packets and DHCPv6 is transmitted over IPv6 packets. DHCPv6 uses Router Advertisement (RA) and IPv6 multicast messages and DHCP uses broadcast IPv4 messages ...

The next line lists the IPv4 address, netmask, and the address used as an IP broadcast address to send packets to every device on the network. The MAC address has a line all its own, followed by the ...

In the world of Internet Protocol Version 4 (IPv4), you can send data packets to three different types of destination addresses: unicast, broadcast and multicast. The majority of Internet traffic ...

Instead of broadcast communication in IPv4, IPv6 uses multicast address routing, Dargin says, which “enables bandwidth-intensive traffic to simultaneously be sent to multiple destinations” so that ...

For the vast majority of TCP/IP users, IPv6 is a long way off, and IPv4 will be around for many years. There are no broadcast addresses at all in IPv6, even directed broadcasts (these were favorites ...

Many enterprises use OSPF version 2 for their internal IPv4 routing protocol ... and the interface types (broadcast, point-to-point, point-to-multipoint, among others). OSPFv3 Packet and LSA ...