Which action best describes a MAC address spoofing attack?

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Which action best describes a MAC address spoofing attack?

  • flooding the LAN with excessive traffic
  • bombarding a switch with fake source MAC addresses
  • altering the MAC address of an attacking host to match that of a legitimate host
  • forcing the election of a rogue root bridge

Explanation: The attacker commonly runs a program or script that sends a stream of frames to the switch so the switch keeps the incorrect (spoofed) information in the MAC address table.

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