Which of the following statement is FALSE?
2018
Which of the following statement is FALSE?
Answer: C. The multicast address is the special case of the broadcast address in which all the bits are 1 — The question asks to identify the false statement regarding network addressing. Multicast and broadcast are two different types of addressing. A broadcast…
- A.
A source address is always unicast
- B.
A destination address can be unicast, multicast, or broadcast
- C.
The multicast address is the special case of the broadcast address in which all the bits are 1
- D.
The most significant bit(s) of the first byte determines the class of the address
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Correct answer: C
The question asks to identify the false statement regarding network addressing.
Multicast and broadcast are two different types of addressing. A broadcast address is used to send data to all hosts on a network and is typically represented by setting all host bits to 1. In contrast, a multicast address is used to send data to a specific group of hosts that have joined the multicast group and belongs to a separate range of IP addresses (Class D in IPv4). Therefore, a multicast address is not a special case of a broadcast address.