Allied Telesis AT-FS238b/2 - Manual (Page 28)

Overview
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Store and Forward
The AT-FS238a/x and AT-FS238b/x Series Bridging Converters support store
and forward switching at Fast Ethernet full-wire speed in 100 Mbps, half- or
full-duplex mode. Packets entering each port are stored in buffers. Once the
full packet is received, the bridging converter will forward or discard the
packet, depending on its destination address and error status. This ensures
that only error-free packets destined for another segment will be transferred
across the bridging converter, reducing network load.
The bridging converter will discard CRC errors, misaligned, runt, and under-
oversized packets. When the packet has dribble bits at the end, the bridging
converter will truncate to octet boundary and check for a good FCS before
forwarding.