• Mrs. Ayesha Taranum
• Juhi Jahan J
• Likhitha M
• S Jayalakshmi
• Shambavi S

The MAC Flooding attack is an attacking method which is mainly intended to compromise the security of network switches.It is not a method of attacking any host machine but attacking a network switch,where the attacker continuously sends packets to switch in order to fill the MAC table.The proposed project aims on detection and prevention of MAC flooding attack occurring on an networking switch .The main goal of an attacker is to flood the MAC table present in the switch,to downgrade the actual functioning of switch .Once the MAC table is filled the switch enters into an open-fail mode,where the switch acts as a hub by broadcasting the data to all the connected ports,so that it eases the attacker to gain access to the n number of systems connected to it.The prevention of such attack being taken place is approached in this project.The prevention method includes two functionalities such as white listing of genuine users and verifying the time frequency of packets .Hence the filtering of white list genuine users and network traffic control is been carried out by Monosek server.

MAC,Fail Open,Whitelist, Network Traffic Control,Filtering.

"An Optimized Solution for Detection and Prevention of MAC Flooding Attack.", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 6, page no.830-832, June-2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1908726.pdf

"An Optimized Solution for Detection and Prevention of MAC Flooding Attack.", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 6, page no. pp830-832, June-2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1908726.pdf