> On Jul 11, 2017, at 8:10 AM, Gordon Apple <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> IMHO, one of the worst failings of WiFi is not including a UDP broadcast mode.

UDP broadcast is deprecated in general, because it triggers every network 
interface on the LAN regardless of whether it’s interested in that packet. UDP 
multicast solves that problem by defining multicast addresses that interfaces 
can register interest in, so an interface only triggers when a multicast packet 
on that address arrives.

WiFi supports UDP multicast.

—Jens

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