what is the difference between broadcast and multicast
Hello jonk34567,
A Broadcast message is a message that is sent out to all the devices within a broadcast domain, excluding the one that originated the message.
A multicast message is a message that is selectively sent to devices that share certain common characteristic (or that they belong to a certain group), excluding the one that originated the message.
Regards,
Jaime.
Data is transported over a network by three simple methods i.e. Unicast, Broadcast, and Multicast. So let’s begin to summarize the difference between these three:
Unicast: from one source to one destination i.e. One-to-One
Broadcast: from one source to all possible destinations i.e. One-to-All
Multicast: from one source to multiple destinations stating an interest in receiving the traffic i.e. One-to-Many