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When a Neighbor Solicitation Message is sent to the Solicited Node Multicast Address, it is send via a broadcast message?

a.true
b.false

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Final answer:

Neighbor Solicitation messages in IPv6 are sent as multicast messages to a Solicited Node Multicast Address, not as broadcasts. The correct answer is b. False.

Step-by-step explanation:

The question is asking about Neighbor Solicitation Messages in the context of Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6). In IPv6, when a device wants to determine the link-layer address of another device on the same network, it sends a Neighbor Solicitation message. This message is not sent as a broadcast, but rather as a multicast to a Solicited Node Multicast Address, which is a specific type of multicast address that corresponds to the target node's IPv6 address.

A broadcast message would be sent to all nodes on the network, but IPv6 uses multicast to be more efficient, sending messages only to a group of interested receivers. Hence, the correct answer to the question is: b. False

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