What does a switch look at when a packet initially arrives at a switch interface?
Group of answer choices
It looks at the destination IP address.
It does not look at any address. It simply broadcasts it out every port, except the one it received it on.
It looks a the destination hardware address and compares it to the MAC database.
It looks at the authentication of the user sending the packet.
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When a packet initially arrives at a switch interface, it primarily looks at the destination hardware address (MAC address) and compares it to its MAC address table (also known as the MAC database). Therefore, the correct answer is:
It looks at the destination hardware address and compares it to the MAC database.
