May 2018
Beginner
230 pages
4h 49m
English
The switch learns the MAC address of the connected device with its physical port, and writes that entry in the CAM table, as shown in the following diagram:

The preceding diagram is divided into two parts. In the first part, the computer with MAC A sends the ARP packet to the computer with MAC B. The switch learns the packet, arrives from the physical port 1, and makes an entry in the CAM Table such that MAC A is associated with port 1. The switch sends the packet to all the connected devices because it does not have the CAM entry of MAC B. In the second part of the diagram, the ...
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