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document updated 16 years ago, on Apr 3, 2008

Various broadcast protocols oriented towards (or suitable for) discovery that I've run across in real life.

IPv4

ARP — ask one

IPv6

Neighbor Discovery Protocol — ask one (ff02::1)
Multicast Listener Discovery — ask many (ff02::d)

not IP (!!?)

Link Layer Discovery Protocol — advertise