Planet NOVASwitch FNSW-8086F User Manual page 30

into the rest of network, thus increasing efficiency of the network
transmission.
There are two basic architectures of LAN switches, cut-through
and store-and-forward. Cut-through switches only examine the
destination address before forwarding it on to its destination
segment. A store-and-forward switch accepts and analyzes the
entire packet before forwarding it to its destination. It allows the
switch to catch certain packet errors and keep them from
propagating through the network. Today there are a large
number of hybrid switches available that mix both cut through
and store-and-forward architectures.
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