![]() It can be achieved by forcing the switch’s rightful MAC table contents out, and the switch’s unicast behavior. The motive behind MAC Flooding attack is to steal data from a victim’s system that is being transferred into a network. A switch does not broadcast network packets to the whole network and maintains network integrity by segregating data and making use of VLANs (Virtual Local Area Network). MAC (Media Access Control) Flooding is a cyber-attack in which an attacker floods network switches with fake MAC addresses to compromise their security. In this article, you’ll learn how this sublayer gets manipulated to execute the MAC flooding attack and how we can prevent the attack from happening. If a device has several network adapters i.e., Ethernet, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, etc., there would be different MAC addresses for each standard. MAC address is a unique address for a network adapter allocated by the manufactures for transmitting data to the destination host. ![]() MAC can be classified as a sublayer of the data link layer that is accountable for physical addressing. On the contrary, as a receiver, it receives data in the shape of electrical signals and transforms them into an identifiable frame. At the sending front, it transforms the data stream into signals bit by bit and transfers it to the hardware. A data link layer acts as a medium for communication between two directly connected hosts.
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