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What is MAC Flooding?
The MAC Flooding is an attacking method intended to compromise the security of the network switches. Usually, the switches maintain a table structure called MAC Table. This MAC Table consists of individual MAC addresses of the host computers on the network which are connected to ports of the switch. This table allows the switches to direct the data out of the ports where the recipient is located. As we’ve already seen, the hubs broadcast the data to the entire network allowing the data to reach all hosts on the network but switches send the data to the specific machine(s) which the data is intended to be sent. This goal is achieved by the use of MAC tables The aim of the MAC Flooding is to takedown this MAC Table. In a typical MAC Flooding attack, the attacker sends Ethernet Frames in a huge number. When sending many Ethernet Frames to the switch, these frames will have various sender addresses.