sorry ... not cut through

[Robert G. Brown]

On Wed, 15 May 2002, Josip Loncaric wrote:

> 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).


Oops.

<blush>Brain Fart</blush>

   rgb

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