Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 06 Aug 2003 12:27:17 -0400 | From | Chris Friesen <> | Subject | Re: TOE brain dump |
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Andy Isaacson wrote: > On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 10:37:58AM -0300, Werner Almesberger wrote: > >>Eric W. Biederman wrote: >> >>>to keep your latency down. Do any ethernet switches do cut-through? >>> >>According to Google, many at least claim to do this. >> > > Do you have any references for this claim? I have never seen one that > panned out (at least not since the high-end-10mbps days). > > Just to be clear, I am asking for an example of a Gigabit Ethernet > switch that supports cut-through switching. I contend that there is no > such beast commercially available today. > > (It would be even more interesting if it could switch 9000-octet jumbo > frames, too.)
A few seconds of googling shows that these claim it: http://www.blackbox.com.mx/products/pdf/europdf/81055.pdf http://www.directdial.com/dd2/images/pdf_specsheet/J4119AABA.pdf
I'm sure there are others...
Chris
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