The switch has a CAM (Content Addressable Memory) table which has mapping of the ports and MAC addresses of the computing node that is connected to each port. The switch learns the MAC address of the nodes initially when it is sending data on the port. The first frame from each node is always broadcasted…
Category: LAN Switching
Sniffing
Sniffing is the act of monitoring and capturing the network traffic. An attacker sniffs the network traffic by inserting a software or hardware into the network between the sender and receiver. Sniffing is also referred as Network Sniffing which is a type of Eavesdropping. Types of Sniffing Passive Sniffing is where the attacker passively listens…
Switching
A switch in a Local Area Network (LAN) is a hardware device that connects multiple devices through a process known as Switching which happens at the Data Link Layer (Layer 2) of the OSI layer. Data Link layer is where a system starts placing data in the transmission medium (wired or wireless) by adding a…