Which of the following describes the behavior of the switch when a broadcast frame is received on port 1?

A 24 port Ethernet switch is configured with VLAN 100 on ports 1 – 8, VLAN 200 on ports 9 – 16 and VLAN 300 on ports 17 – 24.

Which of the following describes the behavior of the switch when a broadcast frame is received on port 1?
A . The switch will discard the broadcast frame because there is no specific destination address.
B . The switch will flood the broadcast frame on all ports on which the switch has seen frames from attached devices
C . The switch will flood the broadcast frame on ports 2 to 8.
D . The switch will flood the broadcast frame on all 24 ports.

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Answer: C