Mission 011


Engineer Briefing

In the previous mission, you learned that switches make forwarding decisions using MAC addresses.

A switch receives a frame and asks:

"Do I know where this frame should go?"

The answer determines what happens next.

There are three major Ethernet traffic behaviors:

  1. Unicast
  2. Broadcast
  3. Unknown Unicast

Understanding these behaviors is critical because they affect:


Mission Objectives

By the end of this mission, students should understand:

✅ What unicast communication is.