What is the Difference between Broadcast and Multicast method?

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EspTouch is one way for Android Phone to tell the connected Router's Ssid, Password and etc. to make IOT devices to connect to the same Router. EspTouch is developed and maintained by Espressif Corp.

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What is the Difference between Broadcast and Multicast method? #72

Closed arihantdaga closed 2 years ago

arihantdaga commented 3 years ago

I see in the Android App there are two options, Broadcast and Multicast. What are different use cases for these two. When should i use Broadcast and when should i use Multicast for sending wifi ssid and password.

XuXiangJun commented 2 years ago

Normally, they are no different, but we found that some routers do not forward packets in multicast mode, so add broadcast mode