The process where a device forwards a packet to all its outgoing links except the one it came from is called _______.
- Broadcast
- Flooding
- Multicast
- Unicast
Flooding is the process where a network device forwards a packet to all of its outgoing links, except the one it arrived from. This is commonly used when a device doesn't know the specific path to the destination.
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