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  2. Broadcast address - Wikipedia

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    A special definition exists for the IP address 255.255.255.255. It is the broadcast address of the zero network or 0.0.0.0, which in Internet Protocol standards stands for this network, i.e. the local network. Transmission to this address is limited by definition, in that it is never forwarded by the routers connecting the local network to ...

  3. Wildcard mask - Wikipedia

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    255.255.255.255 References This page was last edited on 22 May 2023, at 19:38 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons ...

  4. List of assigned /8 IPv4 address blocks - Wikipedia

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    Reserved for future use (formerly "Class E" [5]). 255.255.255.255 is reserved for "limited broadcast" destination address. [ 6 ] [ 7 ] List of assigned /8 blocks to commercial organisations

  5. Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol - Wikipedia

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    The DHCP client broadcasts a DHCPDISCOVER message on the network subnet using the destination address 255.255.255.255 (limited broadcast) or the specific subnet broadcast address (directed broadcast). A DHCP client may also request an IP address in the DHCPDISCOVER, which the server may take into account when selecting an address to offer.

  6. IP address - Wikipedia

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    All receivers capture the network packet. The address 255.255.255.255 is used for network broadcast. In addition, a more limited directed broadcast uses the all-ones host address with the network prefix. For example, the destination address used for directed broadcast to devices on the network 192.0.2.0 / 24 is 192.0.2.255. [24]

  7. Reserved IP addresses - Wikipedia

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    Used for link-local addresses [5] between two hosts on a single link when no IP address is otherwise specified, such as would have normally been retrieved from a DHCP server 172.16.0.0/12 172.16.0.0–172.31.255.255 1 048 576: Private network Used for local communications within a private network [3] 192.0.0.0/24 192.0.0.0–192.0.0.255 256

  8. Martian packet - Wikipedia

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    A Martian packet is an IP packet seen on the public Internet that contains a source or destination address that is reserved for special use by the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) as defined in RFC 1812, Appendix B Glossary (Martian Address Filtering).

  9. route (command) - Wikipedia

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    Destination: Network destination of the route; mask Netmask: The netmask (subnet mask) associated with the network destination; Gateway: The forwarding or next hop IP address over which the set of addresses defined by the network destination and subnet mask are reachable; metric Metric: Integer cost metric (ranging from 1 to 9999) for the route