The switch can operate as a high speed cut-through switch, or as a traditional store-and-forward switch. Cut-through switching of frames is enabled when this object is set to fastForward(3) or fragmentFree(2). This works to reduce buffering latency by attempting to forward a frame before reception is completed. Switches operating with firmware versions greater than or equal to 6.00 support only fragmentFree(2) and sotre-and-forward(1). Broadcast frames are always switched using the store-and-forward(1) method. Multicast frame switching may be forced to the store-and-forward(1) mode using the object sysConfigMulticastStoreAndForward. The switching of any types of frame automatically reverts to the store-and-forward(1) method whenever the switch is configured to monitor frames internally (see the object sysConfigMonitorPort). The default value for this object for firmware version greater than or equal to 6.00 is fragmentFree(2). The default value for this object for firmware version less than 6.00 is fastForward(3). store-and-forward: entire frame is buffered before it is forwarded to the appropriate destination. fragmentFree : forward the frame to the appropriate destination after 64 bytes plus preamble have been received. fastForward : minimize latency by making the forwarding decision as soon as possible during frame reception (after 6 bytes plus preamble).