This field enables or disables cut-through switching, where the switch begins forwarding a frame before it has fully received it. Admins enable this to reduce forwarding latency, at the cost of not being able to filter frames with checksum or CRC errors before forwarding. For example, setting cutThrough to enable(1) reduces port-to-port latency for latency-sensitive applications, at the tradeoff of occasionally forwarding a frame that a store-and-forward switch would have dropped for a CRC error.