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Unicast flood

In computer networking, a unicast flood occurs when a switch receives a unicast frame and the switch does not know that the addressee is on any particular switch port. Since the switch has no information regarding which port, if any, the addressee might be reached through, it forwards the frame through all ports aside from the one through which the frame…

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Causes

Transparent bridgingNetwork segmentForwarding information baseMAC floodingARP
7 related topics

Effects on Networks

Packet lossEnd userPacket sniffer
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Remedies

ARP cacheLayer 2Private VLANs
3 related topics

Background

NodeForwarding table
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Unicast flood

Nodes23
Edges22
Triples18
Avg. degree1.91
Density0.086957
Components1

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Unicast flood

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related to Remedies · 8
Unicast flood → After, ARP, Cisco, Layer, Other, Ports, Private VLANs, VLAN
has cause · 7
Unicast flood → An, Before, Less, MAC, The, This, When
has effect · 3
Unicast flood → Here, In, When

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unicast switch address port ports network frame node cache one received arp flooding mac information networks another forwarding frames host

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Unicast floodhas causeThe0.60section
Unicast floodhas causeBefore0.60section
Unicast floodhas causeThis0.60section
Unicast floodhas causeAn0.60section
Unicast floodhas causeWhen0.60section
Unicast floodhas causeLess0.60section
Unicast floodhas causeMAC0.60section
Unicast floodhas effectWhen0.60section
Unicast floodhas effectHere0.60section
Unicast floodhas effectIn0.60section
Unicast floodrelated to RemediesCisco0.60section
Unicast floodrelated to RemediesAfter0.60section

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