Notify switches
Layer-2 physical switches have the ability to maintain a MAC address table, lookup table, or CAM table. The table maps MAC addresses to switch port numbers. If there is no corresponding entry for a frame's destination MAC address in the lookup table, the switch will flood the frame via every switch port, other than the source port. To reduce the occurrence of such flooding, the switch has a mechanism to learn the MAC addresses and maintain a mapping table. It does so by reading the source MAC address information from the frames that enter the switch. Now, when you cable the physical NICs of an ESXi host to the physical switch ports, the switch is expected to see the MAC addresses of a number of vNICs. The switch will only ...
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