QuestionQ396

Network Fundamentals

Which function forwards frames to ports that have a matching destination MAC address?

  • A frame flooding
  • B frame filtering
  • C frame pushing
  • D frame switching
Explanation

A switch consults its MAC address table to match a frame's destination MAC address to the port it was learned on, then forwards the frame out only that port; this selective, destination-based forwarding operation is known as frame switching. Frame flooding instead sends a frame out all ports when the destination MAC is unknown, broadcast, or multicast, while frame filtering and frame pushing are not the terms used to describe this table-driven forwarding decision.

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