Questions tagged [directed-broadcast]
For questions about IP directed broadcast, where An IP directed broadcast is an IP packet whose destination address is a valid broadcast address for some IP subnet but which originates from a node that is not itself part of that destination subnet. For instance, you are troubleshooting an issue where this function does not work.
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How to forward UDP unicast messages to multiple destinations [closed]
I am trying to forward a UDP Unicast message so that it cant be received by multiple computers. Can anyone point me in the right direction for how to accomplish this?
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Practical uses of directed broadcast
What are directed broadcast addresses used for in practice?
To be clear, an example of a directed broadcast address is 192.168.1.255 for the network 192.168.1.0/24. On the other hand, the limited (or ...
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Can Directed Broadcasts be forwarded even if the destination is 2 hops away?
I was studying for the CCNA exam and I read this: " When a directed broadcast packet reaches a router that is directly connected to the destination network , that packet is broadcast on the ...
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directed broadcast ping on overlapping subnets
I have a router with 2 hosts connected to it.
R: 192.168.0.1/24
host 1: 192.168.0.9/28
host 2: 192.168.0.15/24
Host 1's directed broadcast IP is the same as host 2, so what happens if host 1 pings 192....
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Fortigate: enabling directed broadcast to broadcast conversion on last hop?
I'm not quite certain how to achieve the equivalent of ip directed broadcast with a FortiGate. In this case a FortiGate 60E with FortiOS 5.6.7. So I started to dig a little.
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