Per ushtrimin 3.4.

5 Switch Behavior

This activity quizzes you on your knowledge of how a

frame is forwarded on a switch.

Click the "Check" button to check your answer. Click the

"New Practice Problem" button to start a new computer
generated practice activity.

You are given the physical topology and the MAC address
table of the switch. You are also given a frame that
consists of a source and destination MAC address. The
computer generated activities will have a source and
destination pair using one of the addresses shown on the
topology. Custom activities can use any desired addresses
on both the MAC table and the frame.

1. Your goal is to determine how the switch will handle

this frame given the MAC address table shown.

2. For the first question, check the port numbers to

indicate where (if any) the switch will forward this frame.

3. For the second question, check the corresponding

options to indicate how a switch will handle the frame.

4. Click the "Check" button to see if your answer is

correct.
Additional Help:

"FF" is a broadcast MAC address and is forwarded to all

ports with the exception of the origin port.

A frame is flooded to all ports (except the origin) only if

the switch does not have the destination MAC within the
MAC table.

The switch will only add a new MAC address to the MAC
table based on the source MAC address. If the source MAC
address is already in the table, nothing is added or
learned. If the source MAC address is not in the table, the
address will be added.

A switch will drop a frame if the destination and source

devices are both connected to the same port and the
switch has the destination MAC address in the MAC table.
In this activity, this occurs on the single port connected to
the hub with 2 host devices.