The Layer 2 broadcast is the destination address of the Layer 2 package is FF-FF-FF-FF-FF-FF.
I have a question about the broadcast MAC address.
you see the ARP request, it send the destination MAC address to the broadcast.
I have questions about it:
- Who the actual star of the broadcast MAC address? is it a router ? or a switch?
- You see in the LAN, the ARP request send 6 times, I opened one(
192.168.1.165
). Why the broadcast only send 6 times rather than 256 times(/24
)?
EDIT-01
Thanks for response, and you see literally "everyone on this broadcast domain"
, if this is a /8
segment, whether it will literally so many addresses? or it will only traversal the addresses in the LAN?
I mean if there only 10.10.10.1/8
, 10.10.10.2/8
, 10.10.10.5/8
in the LAN, if send data to ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
, will it traversal the other two addresses, or from the 10.10.10.1
to 10.255.255.255
?