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Switch Forwarding Question: Destination MAC Only?

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December 13, 2016 12:05

How does a Layer 2 switch choose where to send a frame? Does it think about more than the destination MAC
address? One of the common mistakes videos in the new “CCENT ICND1 100-105 Exam Prep LiveLessons” product SUBSCRIB
talks about just that; you can watch that one for free as one of the sample videos on the web site. I thought I’d add
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The links between switches in the figure are VLAN trunks, and the links to servers are access ports. PC2 sends a frame to PC4’s MAC address,
namely 0200.4444.4444. Out which of its interfaces will switch SW3 forward the frame?
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A. F0/1
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C. F0/3
D. G0/1 TAG CLOUD
E. None; SW3 will discard the frame without forwarding it
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1 SW3# show interfaces status

2 Port Name Status Vlan Duplex Speed Type
3 Fa0/1 connected 2 a-full a-100 10/100BaseTX
4 Fa0/2 connected 2 a-full a-100 10/100BaseTX
5 Fa0/3 connected 3 a-full a-100 10/100BaseTX
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7 SW3# show mac address-table dynamic
8 Mac Address Table
9 -------------------------------------------
10 Vlan Mac Address Type Ports
11 ---- ----------- -------- -----
12 2 0200.1111.1111 DYNAMIC Fa0/1
13 3 0200.5555.5555 DYNAMIC Fa0/3
14 2 0200.6666.6666 DYNAMIC Gi0/1

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Ruben December 13, 20:42

I’m going to take a shot at this since (haven’t watched the video yet) I’m lurking about, so let’s start eliminating stuff:

– switches don’t forward frames out on the interface that the frame came from, taking out f0/2 out of the equation.
– analyzing the output of the show interface status, we see that f0/3 is in a different vlan, also excluding this interface.
– since the switch (by analyzing the mac address table output) hasn’t learned destination ports for 0200.2222.2222 (pc2) and
0200.4444.4444 (pc4), it suggests that a broadcast will happen (comming from pc2), flooding the frame out on f0/1 and g0/1

Comments will be welcome, and if I’m wrong, try to point me in the right direction without giving away the answer please! TYVM

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Reed November 24, 14:32

I believe it will only forward it out Gi0/1 as that is a trunk port and the other vlans connecting fa0/1 and fa0/2 are on vlan 2
and access ports.

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Punya Athma May 8, 00:40

Answers are: A, and D. Ports fa0/1, fa0/2, and, Gi0/1, are in the same VLAN 2. For SW3 the frame from PC2 intended to PC4 is an
unknown uni cast frame as the mac address of PC4 is not in the table of SW3. So the frame flooded out fa0/1, and, Gi0/1 except the
port fa0/2 from it the frame entered SW3.

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