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What is the significance of the IP address 255.255.255.255?

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What is the significance of the IP address 255.255.255.255?

Re: What is the significance of the IP address 255.255.255.255?

Submitted by naveen123 on Wed, 2007-05-09 21:35.

The limited broadcast address is utilized when an IP node must perform a one-to-everyone delivery on the local network but the network ID is unknown.