We now know that switches work on the principle of frame forwarding. As soon as the frame enters the switch through the incoming port, the frame is examined, and then forwarded to the device at the destinations via the outgoing port. However, it cannot be said that there is a single method of frame forwarding. A variety of frame forwarding methods are discussed in the following sections.
Frame forwarding methods
Store-and-forward switching
Among the features mentioned in brief in the section Features of the switch, we discussed storing frames. In a meaningful format, the storing frames feature is based on store-and-forward switching. This switching method means that once the frame enters the switch, its data is stored until...
