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| What is store-and-forward switching technology? |
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Definition
| The switch takes in a frame and does a CRC before forwarding the frame out. |
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| What are two types of cut-through switching and what are the differences? |
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Definition
Fast-forward switching - immediately forwards a packet after reading the destiniation address
Fragment-free switching -- switch stores the first 64 bytes of the frame before forwarding. This prevents most collisions. |
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| What is the difference between symmetric and asymmetric switching? |
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Definition
| Symmetric is between ports of the same bandwidth and asymmetric is different bandwidths. |
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| What is port-based vs shared memory buffering? |
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Definition
| Port based allocates a buffer to each port. Shared allocates memory for all ports to use. |
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| The command -- Terminal history size 50 --- does what function? |
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Definition
| Increases the size of the terminal history to the last 50 commands from the default of 10 commands. |
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