What is difference between Flooding and Broadcasting ?

Question

Distance vector uses broadcasting for transfer of vectors among it neighbors. but can it use flooding for this purpose.

i am getting confused between flooding and broadcasting.

Answer 1

In flooding the vectors will be sent to each node irrespective of the fact that whether that particular node is a neighbour of the node or not but in broadcasting that is in DVR we send the distance vectors only to the neighbours that is local knowledge is there where as in LSR global knowledge is there.

Answer 2

In flooding the switch sends the frame to all because it doesn't know how to reach the destination.

In broadcasting the host that created the frame itself addressed the frame to everyone.