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Chapter 7, Problem 14Q

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Differences between cut-through, store and forward, and fragment free switching:

Store-and-forward switchingCut-through switchingFragment free switching
The store-and-forward switching technique waits until the entire incoming frames are received and then it forwards the frame to corresponding destination address.The cut-through switching technique starts forwarding the incoming packets before it arrives completely.The fragment free switching technique lies between cut-through and store and forward switching.
After checking the destination address, source address, it starts forwarding the packets...

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