What replaces broadcast address in IPv6?

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by Muhammad Irfan , Level II Enterprise Services Engineer , Machsol,Inc

there’s no longer any broadcast in IPV6, It has been replace with Multicast address.

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by Muhammad Asif Khan , Manager Network Operations , Connect Communications Pvt Limited

Multicast

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by Asim Ali , SAP HCM Support Officer , Al Tilal Steel Company Limited

The IPv4 broadcast address, usually xxx.xxx.xxx.255, is expressed by multicast addresses in IPv6.

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