The IEEE has built in several special address types to allow more than one network interface card to be addressed at one time: Packets sent to the broadcast address, all one bits, are received by all stations on a local area network. In hexadecimal the broadcast address would be . A broadcast frame is flooded and is forwarded to and accepted by all other nodes. Packets sent to a multicast address are received by all stations on a LAN that have been configured to receive packets sent to that address. Functional addresses identify one or more Token Ring NICs that provide a particular service, defined in IEEE 802.5.
The IEEE has built in several special address types to allow more than one network interface card to be addressed at one time Packets sent to the broadcast address all one bits are received by all stations on a local area network In hexadecimal the broadcast address would be  A broadcast frame is flooded and is forwarded to and accepted by all other nodes Packets sent to a multicast address are received by all stations on a LAN that have been configured to receive packets sent to that address Functional addresses identify one or more Token Ring NICs that provide a particular service defined in IEEE 8025