Explain how a switch learns MAC addresses and where a switch stores the addresses.

What will be an ideal response?

Switches learn the MAC addresses of the connected networking devices by extracting the MAC address information from the headers of transmitted Ethernet data packets. A switch maps the extracted MAC address to the port where the data packet came in. This information is stored in content addressable memory
(CAM).

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