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 exhausts a switch's CAM table by flooding it with spoofed MAC addresses, the switch enters fail-open mode and begins broadcasting all frames to every port, effectively behaving as a hub. This exposes all network traffic to any host on the segment, enabling passive sniffing attacks.

There is no 'pix mode' on network switches - PIX is a legacy Cisco firewall product and has no relation to switch MAC flooding behavior.

Switches experiencing CAM table overflow do not selectively delete entries or vary behavior by manufacturer in this way; they uniformly enter fail-open mode and flood all ports with unknown unicast frames.

CAM table overflow does not redirect traffic to a broadcast address or generate collisions; it causes unicast frames with unknown destinations to be flooded to all switch ports.