Hi Alex, When a switch is doing a mac address table lookup, if a match is found the CAM table will provide the destination port. But to be honest the MAC and CAM tables are used interchangeably.
Hi chansetwo, both switches, lets say for example SW1 & SW2 are connected with a single link Gig0/0 on both sides. They will be continuously sending messages to each other like CDP, STP, ect. As long as those keep arriving the mac table never ages out. Try shutting down the link on SW2, and view the mac address table on SW1. That specific entry will age out after 300 sec by default. You can speed it up by "using mac address-table aging-time 10" on SW1 or just clear the mac address table. Hope that helps.
How did PC1 (AAA) knew that the destination MAC address he needed to contact was CCC if even the switch didn't know it ? It had to be some type of prior communication that told PC1 that the MAC address he wanted to contact was CCC since they could be tens of computers connected to the switch. Thanks a lot for your videos...
Hey great question, the answer to your queston is ARP. PC1 and PC2 will ARP for eachothers MAC addresses. I mention in the video but assume the PC's have all ARP'd for eachother. The switch would have that info in its mac address table. Eventually the switches mac table entries would age out and it would be empty. Thats where im starting from. Or assume the PC's arp'd for eachother and the switch rebooted.
I mention early in the video to assume the ARP process has already happened. I do have a separate video dedicated to ARP that is linked in the description.
Thanks! Good info and great teaching style.
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I liked and subscribed. Thank you for teaching about static MAC address entries, MAC address aging and their configurations on Cisco switches.
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Excellent tutorial. Super helpful, Thank You.
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Nice explanation, are the CAM-Table MAC-Address Table and SAT same?
Hi Alex, When a switch is doing a mac address table lookup, if a match is found the CAM table will provide the destination port. But to be honest the MAC and CAM tables are used interchangeably.
thanks! a very clear explanation
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Thank you so much for explained
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How does a switch learn the mac address of a neighbor switch interface? On my simulator, they are just always there and don't age out.
Hi chansetwo, both switches, lets say for example SW1 & SW2 are connected with a single link Gig0/0 on both sides. They will be continuously sending messages to each other like CDP, STP, ect. As long as those keep arriving the mac table never ages out. Try shutting down the link on SW2, and view the mac address table on SW1. That specific entry will age out after 300 sec by default. You can speed it up by "using mac address-table aging-time 10" on SW1 or just clear the mac address table. Hope that helps.
Late to the party but greattttttttttt video.
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How did PC1 (AAA) knew that the destination MAC address he needed to contact was CCC if even the switch didn't know it ? It had to be some type of prior communication that told PC1 that the MAC address he wanted to contact was CCC since they could be tens of computers connected to the switch.
Thanks a lot for your videos...
Hey great question, the answer to your queston is ARP. PC1 and PC2 will ARP for eachothers MAC addresses. I mention in the video but assume the PC's have all ARP'd for eachother. The switch would have that info in its mac address table. Eventually the switches mac table entries would age out and it would be empty. Thats where im starting from. Or assume the PC's arp'd for eachother and the switch rebooted.
All these videos and none of them show how the first sending computer knows the destination
I mention early in the video to assume the ARP process has already happened. I do have a separate video dedicated to ARP that is linked in the description.
@@NetworkEngineerPro Appreciate your reply. Thanks for your videos!