During a routine network inspection, a technician inspects a switch's forwarding table to verify local host connectivity within a single broadcast domain. At which layer of the OSI reference model do MAC addresses and frames primarily operate?
- Data Link layerCevap
- BNetwork layer
- CTransport layer
- DPhysical layer
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Data Link layer
The Data Link layer (Layer 2) of the OSI reference model provides node-to-node data transfer across a shared physical medium. It encapsulates Network layer packets into frames and relies on MAC addresses for local delivery.
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OSI Layer 2 (Data Link Layer) Functions and Addressing
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