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Instead of utilizing the IP protocol to define the destination, GOOSE is utilizing the Ethernet multicasting. Any IED that is connected to the same switch as the sending IED is receiving the GOOSE packet and then can decide to use this information or drop it. It is doing so by fixing the destination MAC-address range to 01-0C-CD-01-00 to 01-0C-CD-01-FF1F-FF. With a destination address starting with 01 defining the mulsticast multicast range.
Repetition Strategy
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