Week 10
- Some examples of storage media include ROM, DRAM, Hard Drive, NVRAM
- Switches has the ability to map MAC addresses to switch ports. It can locate physical location of MAC addresses. The switch has a CAM and an ARP table.
- CAM table : storing MAC addresses available on physical ports. It maps mac addresses to physical switch ports and also helps in identifying attackers who are sniffing local traffic, which will appear in the table and thus is volatile
- ARP table : contains information of each MAC address and its IP address.
- Router is used to route network packets, based on the addressed, to other devices or network.
- Firewall is a network security device that monitors traffic going in and out of the network that is place a firewall. It can filter traffic by a set of security rules. The logs contain important information such as connection attempts, applications, and etc.
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