answer the following questions: 1. what is the broadcast ethernet address, written in standard form as wireshark displays it? 2. which bit of the ethernet address is used to determine whether it is unicast or mul-ticast/broadcast?

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1. The broadcast  ethernet address is ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff. This is 48 bits of standard form "all 1s."2. The least significant bit of the first octet of the destination address in multicast frames is set to 1. This allows a network switch to tell the difference between unicast and multicast addresses.What is ethernet address?This address is the unique identifier that allows a networked computer to communicate with Internet. The ethernet address is used to associate a "IP address" to a specific computer — without it, there is no way to access servers, websites, email, and so on.A MAC address must be assigned to every device on a local area network. On an Ethernet network, the MAC address is frequently referred as the Ethernet address. They are, in fact, interchangeable. The Ethernet address is 48 bits long and is typically represented by 12 hexadecimal digits.Byte sequences, including Ethernet addresses, have been represented by a series of hexadecimal digits in upper or lower case, separated by colons, periods, or dashes.To learn more about ethernet address refer to :https://brainly.com/question/28274227#SPJ4

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