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Broadcast Address
Broadcast Address is an IP address used to broadcast a datagram to all hosts on a given subnet. A special type of IP address is the limited broadcast address 255.255.255.255. A broadcast involves delivering a message from one sender to many recipients. This broadcast is 'limited' in that it does not reach every node on the Internet, only nodes on the LAN.
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