Was reading through some documentation as noticed that the Nexus 5500 series has some unusual behaviours for Store and Forward. I made myself notes about the functional modes. Cut-Through vs Store and Forward In cut-through mode of operation a switch will start transmitting a frame before the frame has been completely received and this is the [...]
Defining Flow Forwarding Instead of Switch or Routing
8th February 2012 by 6 Comments
Wherein I make the case OpenFlow like technologies are neither switching or routing. It’s Flow Forwarding, or just Forwarding.
OpenFlow and Software Defined Networking: Is It Routing or Switching ?
21st December 2011 by 7 Comments
I got asked a question by a reader “is OpenFlow used for Routing or Switching ?”
