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Also the source address and destination address must be available befoe
a forward decission can be made. I think that we should not be that picky
about what cut-through is. Everyone need to store some parts of the packet
(at least the header) to process the packet. The question really comes
to wether the delay depends on the packet size or not and wether it does
so regardless of of contention or not. Even cut through may store
a complete packet due to contention.
If a CRC is used to validate the header, it should only cover the header.
There may be a seperate CRC to cover the payload. In my view a payload
error should not lead to having the packet discardet, whereas a header
error should defenitely discard the packet. We want to monitor payload
CRCs as a part of performance monitoring and performance degradation location.
The destination node should be able to monitor the same payload CRC error
in order to collect _flow_ performance statistics.
Robin
Martin Brewer wrote:
Be
aware also that Store and Forward has the opportunity to strip the frame
whereas a cut through archecture does not. Since the TTL is a way
of determining the validity of the frame, if used in a cut through architecture,
the frame should start transmission out until the TTL field has been read.Martin
Hi All
Obviously, if TTL is part of the header and protected by CRC then CRC
check/update has to be done at every node. There can be a CRC for
the header alone. That might mitigate Angela's concerns.
Regards
Ajay Sahai
"Angela T. Faber" wrote:
Folks
One question regarding CRC check: are
we assuming CRC will be checked at every node (as the frame is forwarded)
or it will be checked only at the destination/source node?My initial thought
on this is that, if we don't do it at every node, than how do we remove
the frame from ring if the source and destination addresses are corrupted?
On the other hand I assume that if every node checks it, more time is spent
with forwarding it.... Any
insights are welcomed.Thanks! Angela
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