sorry ... not cut through

[Josip Loncaric]

Greg Lindahl wrote:
> 
> You said this backwards: cutthrough switches ought to be better on
> latency. 
> 
> Cut-through vs. store-and-forward ought not affect bandwidth at all.

I'd second that -- and add that an important reason why people build
store-and-forward switches despite (slightly) worse latencies is to
filter out malformed packets.  Isolating such failures can save the
whole network from an expensive problem (e.g., lost business).

Sincerely,
Josip

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