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      • A network switch utilizes MAC addresses to facilitate the efficient and targeted transmission of data within a local area network (LAN). By leveraging MAC addresses, switches can intelligently manage the flow of data traffic, ensuring that packets are delivered only to their intended recipients.
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  2. Feb 10, 2023 · It seems that MAC addresses are used to do an IP-MAC mapping inside a switch in a LAN, but it seems redundant since the switch already should know which port leads to which host with a given IP address.

  3. Sep 15, 2018 · MAC address (Layer 2) is what hosts use to communicate on LAN on the same network . If hosts are in the same switch (as you've said) basically you don't have routers (Layer 3) in between them which uses an IP address to distinguish a hosts on the network.

  4. Dec 28, 2023 · The Switch MAC Address enhances network security by enabling device authentication and authorization based on their MAC Addresses. This process helps ward off unauthorized access and strengthens network security protocols.

  5. A switch is a network device that interconnects host devices at Layer 2 of the OSI model. In order to perform its function correctly, it must be able to learn the MAC addresses of the connected hosts and maintain them in a MAC address table.

  6. How do network switches know the MAC addresses of the devices in their network? Layer 2 network switches maintain a table in memory that matches MAC addresses to the switch's Ethernet ports. This table is called a Content Addressable Memory (CAM) table.

  7. This lesson explains how a switch learns MAC address and why it floods frames when it doesn't know the destination MAC address.

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