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Anycast


Anycast is a network addressing and routing method in which datagrams from a single sender are routed to any one of several destination nodes, selected on the basis of which is the nearest, lowest cost, healthiest, with the least congested route, or some other distance measure.

Routing schemes

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unicast

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broadcast

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multicast

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anycast

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