Nathan is testing some of his network devices. Nathan is using Macof to try and flood the ARP cache of these switches. If these switches' ARP cache is successfully flooded, what will be the result?

When Macof generates thousands of frames with random source MAC addresses, it fills the switch's Content Addressable Memory (CAM) table beyond capacity. Once full, the switch cannot store new MAC-to-port mappings and fails open by flooding all incoming unicast frames out all interfaces - a condition commonly called 'hub mode.' This allows an attacker with a packet sniffer on the same segment to capture traffic intended for other hosts.

'Pix mode' is not a valid switch operating state; Cisco PIX refers to a legacy firewall appliance and has no relevance to switch CAM table overflow behavior.

Switches do not respond to CAM table overflow by deleting existing entries; they fail open and flood all frames, which is the opposite of a selective deletion response.

Switches do not re-route traffic to a broadcast address as a result of CAM flooding; they forward frames out all physical ports simultaneously, which is unicast flooding rather than broadcast routing.