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Layer 2 attacks
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-Spanning Tree Protocol (STP) Attacks. -Address Resolution Protocol (ARP) Attacks. -Media Access Control (MAC) Spoofing. -Content Addressable Memory (CAM) Table Overflows. -Cisco Discovery Protocol (CDP)/Link Layer Discovery Protocol (LLDP) Reconnaissance. -Virtual LAN (VLAN) Hopping.
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Attacker starts sending traffic with different source MAC addresses - forcing out the legitimates MAC addresses There is a limit on a MAC address table so now the switch will start sending traffic to all interfaces
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