BCAST or IP broadcast is a protocol that lets an initiator send a single packet of data to multiple end systems simultaneously. The packet of data is sent to all connected computers on a particular IP subnet.
You cannot broadcast across subnets or across a WAN. DTS uses broadcast when you are sending the same source data from a single computer to the same destination location on those multiple end systems on the same local subnet. Broadcast is an efficient way of transferring data, particularly when the number of end systems is large.
Important! DTS supports IPv4 broadcast and IPv4/IPv6 multicast addressing. The BCAST point-to-many protocol is only for use with IPv4 addresses. If you want to perform a broadcast-type transfer over an IPv6 network, use the MCAST protocol with the relevant IPv6 multicast address.
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