Configuring Switching Modes
As technologies improved, the use of a Cut-Through switching method is no longer needed. Hardware nowadays is much faster and much more powerful than years ago and the Store and Forward method is used by default and cannot be changed on modern switches.
Although, if you encounter an old device (IOS v5.0) there’s a high probability that Cut-Through switching will be enabled by default. If you require to configure Store and Forward switching on that particular device, here’s how to do so.
Configuring Store and Forward Switching on old devices
Configuring Store and Forward Switching
S1# configure terminal S1(config)# switching-mode store-forward
Re-Enabling Cut-Through Switching method
Re-Enabling Cut-Through Switching method
S1# configure terminal
S1(config)# no switching-mode store-forward