How does a switch determine which port to use to transmit a packet once it is received?
- IP routes
- Security associations
- ACLs
- MAC tables
The correct answer is 4.
A MAC table is the collected/learned identities of attached network devices stored in memory on the switch. As a switch sees a new source MAC address in a received Ethernet frame, it adds the address to its lookup table for that specific physical port.
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