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moved multicast to an extension spec
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### Optional: Broadcast address
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Packets addressed to the broadcast address, an address beginning with the tilde character, `~`, ASCII 126, can optionally be received by all nodes of the same layer 2 network. While a node MAY forward a broadcast packet to other nodes, it SHOULD NOT, unless both sides of the forward are prepared to handle such a packet, to avoid it going around the entire layer 3 network.
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### Optional: Multicast
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A multicast packet has a specially formatted address part.
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The address must be a list of valid addresses, beginning with `~` seperated by the tilde character, `~`, ASCII 126.
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For example, to send to nodes `a` and `b`, the address in the packet would be `~a~b`.
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Each node should send multicasts as layer 2 broadcasts, unless it is known (using the address cache) that all layer 3 destination addresses have to be sent to or forwarded by one layer 2 address.
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When a multicast packet is forwarded, the addresses already seen SHOULD be removed from the packet when possible, using the address cache as a guide.
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The same address MUST NOT be repeated in a multicast destination, but the duplicate MAY be ignored and just considered one, but also MAY br dropped as an invalid packet. A duplicate address MUST NOT be considered as two packets with the same contents to the same address.
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A multicast packet SHOULD also be able to be broken up into multiple packets with the same contents (but they need different packet IDs!) with different addresses.
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### WIP, Optional: Network status packets
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Currently undecided on specifics and taking input.
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protocol-ext-multicast.md
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### Optional: Multicast
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A multicast packet has a specially formatted address part.
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The address must be a list of valid addresses, beginning with `~` seperated by the tilde character, `~`, ASCII 126.
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For example, to send to nodes `a` and `b`, the address in the packet would be `~a~b`.
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Each node should send multicasts as layer 2 broadcasts, unless it is known (using the address cache) that all layer 3 destination addresses have to be sent to or forwarded by one layer 2 address.
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When a multicast packet is forwarded, the addresses already seen SHOULD be removed from the packet when possible, using the address cache as a guide.
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The same address MUST NOT be repeated in a multicast destination, but the duplicate MAY be ignored and just considered one, but also MAY br dropped as an invalid packet. A duplicate address MUST NOT be considered as two packets with the same contents to the same address.
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A multicast packet SHOULD also be able to be broken up into multiple packets with the same contents (but they need different packet IDs!) with different addresses.
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