What Addressing Information Is Recorded By A Switch To Build Its Mac Address?
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A switch records the source and destination Media Access Control (MAC) address of each frame that it sees and stores these addresses in its MAC address table in order to make forwarding decisions.
A switch records the source MAC address (the MAC address of the device that sent it a packet) and the port number associated with that device in order to build its MAC address table. This allows the switch to look up the correct port to send a packet to when it receives a packet destined for a specific MAC address.