5.2.Types of Addresses
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Most network traffic is unicast in nature, meaning that traffic travels from a single source device to a single destination device.
Multicast technology provides an efficient mechanism for a single host to send traffic to multiple, yet specific, destinations.
A Class D address, such as 239.1.2.3, represents the address of a multicast group .
Broadcast traffic travels from a single source to all destinations on a network (that is, a broadcast domain).
