Timeline for Does a switch always get a MAC address from a PC?
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| Feb 5, 2018 at 21:59 | vote | accept | Lukáš Stacke | ||
| Feb 5, 2018 at 21:11 | comment | added | Ron Trunk | The switch doesn't know or care if it was received. It only learns MAC addresses fro the source address of frames. | |
| Feb 5, 2018 at 19:19 | comment | added | Lukáš Stacke | Hi, thank you for answer. So in case the frame is received by PC with the destination MAC address it always sends the answer back so switch can add this mac into CAM table ? Or how the switch knows that the frame was received ? | |
| Feb 5, 2018 at 17:35 | history | answered | Ron Trunk | CC BY-SA 3.0 |