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A layer 2 switch uses the MAC address to determine which port to switch the frame out of.

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Q: What does a layer 2 switch use to decide where to forward a received frame?
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When would a LAN switch use flooding to forward a frame?

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What is accurate about fast-forward switching?

The switch stores the first 64 bytes of the frame before forwarding.


What does a switch store in its switching table?

The destination mac addressof a frame and the port it was received on.


A switch received a frame with a destination mac address that is currently not in the mac table what action does the switch performs?

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What is A switching mode in which a switch reads a frame's header and decides where to forward the data before it receives the entire packet?

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What does the term dynamic indicate in the output that is?

The switch learned this MAC address from the source address in a frame received on Fa0/18.


What processes does a switch follow before it forwards a frame in store and forward mode?

it receives the complete frame it reads the source and destination addresses it preforms a cyclic redundancy check it applies the relevant filters.


Why does a switch flood a frame?

Because it is a broadcast frame Because it is a multicast Frame Because the switch has no MAC address for it.


What are the release dates for Frame Switch - 2014?

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