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-An ethernet switch has a number of ethernet ports, usually [10baseT
], [100baseT
], and [1000baseT
]. A switch receives ethernet frames on every port and based on the destination MAC address, forwards them out another port. Switches of these type tend to be store-and-forward devices, receiving the entire frame and doing a lookup against the MAC table for destination ports.
+An ethernet switch has a number of ethernet ports, usually [10BaseT
], [100BaseT
], and [1000BaseT
]. A switch receives ethernet frames on every port and based on the destination MAC address, forwards them out another port. Switches of these type tend to be store-and-forward devices, receiving the entire frame and doing a lookup against the MAC table for destination ports.
The MAC table is updated on reception of packets from a source [MAC] address, for each MAC address an entry in that ports MAC forwarding table is added.
