scenario of broadcasting IP address in daily life?
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IPv4 addresses come in 4 forms: Unicast, Broadcast, Multicast and Anycast. On the other hand, IPv6 addresses only come in 3 forms: Unicast, Multicast and Anycast. For the purpose of this article, we’ll explain in more detail what is Broadcast and how does it work.
The various forms mentioned above are referring to how data is routed to the destination IP addresses. Each form has a different way of being routed to the destination. Unicast is the most basic. When you send data to a Unicast IP address, it just goes from the sender’s machine to the recipient machine that is using that IP address. We have previously covered Anycast & Multicast and today we’ll focus on Broadcast.
When your computer first connects to a Local Area Network (LAN), it does not have an IP address. It has to connect to the Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) server to get an IP address. To do so, your computer has to perform a broadcast to a special Broadcast IP address 255.255.255.255 which essentially means every machine on the LAN will receive your request for an IP address. The DHCP server will then respond with an IP address to be assigned to your machine.