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Transmission packets – Rockwell Automation Ethernet Design Considerations Reference Manual User Manual

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Rockwell Automation Publication ENET-RM002C-EN-P - May 2013

Chapter 3

Ethernet Infrastructure Features

Transmission Packets

Data is transmitted over the EtherNet/IP network in packets. There are
transmission methods for transporting data on the network.

Packet Type

Destination

Description

Unicast

A single node

Unicast connections are point-to-point transmissions between a source node and destination node on the network.
A frame is sent to a single destination.

Multicast

Multiple nodes
simultaneously

Multicast connections deliver information from one sender to multiple receivers simultaneously.
Copies of a single frame are passed to a selected subset of possible destinations.

Broadcast

All nodes

Broadcast connections transmit information to every device on the network.
A frame is delivered to all hosts on the network.

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