what would happen if you plugged a network switch into itself
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@Felthry my guess would be that it just wouldn't do anything
either because the protocol is designed in such a way that it wouldn't cause a problem, or because the switch itself will notice and handle it
i can't imagine that that's a difficult problem in 2020, someone would have done something by now
@Felthry it wasn't really exciting, it just knocked us both off the network, but it was fun
@Felthry yeah I feel that "but what if I go out of my way to cause problems" impulse, like i want to see what would happen
one time in a networking class the teacher put his phone's MAC address on the whiteboard just to show us what a MAC address looks like, and explained that it's how the network keeps track of the devices connected to it
i asked him what would happen if two people had the same MAC address and he said "oh it wouldn't happen, this part of the address is a code that refers to a network chip manufacturer and the rest of it is that manufacturer's responsibility to keep unique"
"right, but what if i spoofed it"
".........i actually have no idea, want to try?"