how does a switch learn mac addresses

Illustration Of A Switch With A Mac Address Table Icon, Showing Both Targeted Forwarding And Flooding Arrows

Switching Concepts: MAC Learning, Aging, Switching, and Flooding

Domain 1.13 | Network Fundamentals — 20% of exam Learning Objectives By the end of this lesson, you will be able to: Key Terms Term Definition MAC address table The data structure a switch uses to map MAC addresses to physical ports CAM table Content Addressable Memory table; another name for the MAC address table...

Asad Ijaz 22 min read
Switch Building A Mac Address Table By Learning Ports And Flooding Unknown Destinations
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Switching Fundamentals: MAC Address Tables and Frame Forwarding Methods

An Ethernet switch is a Layer 2 device, which means it makes every forwarding decision based on MAC addresses, entirely unaware of what protocol is actually carried inside the frame’s payload, whether that’s an IPv4 packet, an IPv6 packet, or something else entirely. This guide covers exactly how a switch builds and uses its MAC...

Muhammad Khattak 8 min read
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