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IPv4 unicast, broadcast, and multicast

IPv4 unicast, broadcast, and multicast

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IPv4 unicast, broadcast, and multicast

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- [Instructor] My goal for you in this video is to understand three different IP version 4 communication flows and to illustrate these three different types of flows, let's consider a scenario. Let's imagine that at 2:00 PM today, our company's CEO is going to make an announcement over a video, and it's going to be coming from this video server you see on screen. Now, PCs 1 and 2, they want to receive the video. They want to see what the CEO has to say. PC 3, that user, they're on a tight deadline. They're working on another project. They don't want to get the video, and the question is, how do we achieve that? Now, for simplicity's sake, I'm just showing three PCs here, but this could be 300 PCs, where 200 wanted to receive the video, and 100 did not want to receive the video, but first let's consider IP version 4 unicast. A unicast packet goes from one source IP address to one destination IP address. So notice the…

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