IP Communication Types Flashcards
True or False: Unicast is considered One to Many
False. That’s Multicast
If a Server and a PC are directly communicating with one another what communication type would that be?
Unicast
What type of communication type would hold music be considered as and why?
Multicast because it’s sending one copy of data to multiple hosts
What class deals with multicast addresses?
Class D
True of False: Multicast is One to Many
True
What device is a multicast address set up on to forward multicast traffic?
Routers
True or False: Broadcast traffic is one to one communication
False. That’s Unicast
True or False: Broadcast traffic is one to all communication
True
True or False: Broadcast traffic sends all traffic to all the hosts on a subnet?
True
True or False: Routers forward broadcast traffic
False
Why is DHCP considered a broadcast communication type?
A single host sends out a DHCP request to all devices requesting an IP Address. However, all devices ignore this request BUT the DHCP server.
What protocol connects an ever-changing Internet Protocol (IP) address to a fixed physical machine address, also known as a media access control (MAC) address, in a local-area network (LAN)
ARP (Address Resolution Protocol)
True or False: Anycast is one to closest
True
What type of technology is anycast?
IPv6 but can be IPv4 in some instances
What is one of the main protocol that uses anycast in the IPv4 world?
DNS
