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The Broadcast Address the last addresses in the network. If you send packets to this address the packets are supposed to be sent to every address in your LAN. Since there was a lot of confusion when the Broadcast address was invented people can sometimes send packets to the Network Address and get them to Broadcast to all of the machines on the network.
Joseph Colton
2002-09-24