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Question #: 378
Topic #: 8
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Switches maintain a CAM Table that maps individual MAC addresses on the network to physical ports on the switch.

In MAC flooding attack, a switch is fed with many Ethernet frames, each containing different source MAC addresses, by the attacker. Switches have a limited memory for mapping various MAC addresses to physical ports. What happens when the CAM table becomes full?

  • A. Switch then acts as hub by broadcasting packets to all machines on the network
  • B. The CAM overflow table will cause the switch to crash causing Denial of Service
  • C. The switch replaces outgoing frame switch factory default MAC address of FF:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF
  • D. Every packet is dropped and the switch sends out SNMP alerts to the IDS port A
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Suggested Answer: Explanation 🗳️
by sri_hack89 at May 16, 2020, 6:09 p.m.

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igodomigododevcenter
6 months, 4 weeks ago
Selected Answer: A
When the switch cam table is full, the switch will now behave like a hub broadcasting all the frames in the network.
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CHCHCHC
1 year, 5 months ago
machan meka answer A bro because When the Content Addressable Memory (CAM) table in a switch becomes full, it is unable to map new MAC addresses to their corresponding physical ports.
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sri_hack89
4 years, 6 months ago
A. Switch then acts as hub by broadcasting packets to all machines on the network
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