On 3/9/2017 9:13 AM, t.petch wrote:
> And I am surprised at the lack of mention of IPv6 which did its bit for
> the planet by eliminating broadcast.
IPv4 had two kinds of broadcast:
- all 1's (like IPv6 all-nodes link local)
- subnet-directed, which RFC2644 turned into a subset of all 1's on
a link
IPv6 has the following kinds of multicast that are effectively broadcast:
- all-nodes link-local (like IPv4 all 1's)
- all-nodes site-local (arguably similar to subnet-directed, but
un-doing the one-hop restriction of RFC2644)
- all the multicast addresses that work over other scopes, limited
only by function
e.g., NTP can be "broadcast" everywhere
And, depending on implementation, IPv6 anycast might use broadcast too.
So IPv6 didn't remove any of IPv4's broadcast; it just gave alternatives
that may or may not be used - some of which can "broadcast" even wider.
Joe
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