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Glossary of Terms¶
Brief explanations of terms used throughout the TNSR documentation. In-depth descriptions are typically provided upon first usage.
- ACL¶
An acronym for Access Control List.
- ARP¶
An acronym for Address Resolution Protocol.
- ASN¶
An acronym for Autonomous System Number.
- BFD¶
Bidirectional Forwarding Detection (BFD) is used to detect faults between two routers across a link, even if the physical link does not support failure detection.
- BGP¶
An acronym for Border Gateway Protocol.
- CA¶
An acronym for Certificate Authority.
- CPE¶
An acronym for Customer Premise Equipment.
- DMZ¶
An acronym for Demilitarized Zone.
- DNS¶
An acronym for Domain Name System.
- DPDK¶
An acronym for Data Plane Developer Kit.
- ERSPAN¶
An acronym for Encapsulated Remote Switched Port Analyzer.
- FRR¶
An acronym for Free Range Routing.
- GRE¶
An acronym for Generic Routing Encapsulation.
- HTTP¶
An acronym for Hypertext Transfer Protocol.
- ICMP¶
An acronym for Internet Control Message Protocol.
- IOVA¶
An acronym for IO Virtual Addresses.
- IP¶
An acronym for Internet Protocol.
- ISP¶
An acronym for Internet Service Provider.
- L2¶
Layer 2 (L2) is the second layer, or data link layer, of the seven-layer OSI model of computer networking.
- L3¶
Layer 3 (L3) is the third layer, or network layer, of the seven-layer OSI model of computer networking.
- LAN¶
An acronym for Local Area Network.
- MIB¶
An acronym for Management Information Base.
- MED¶
An acronym for Multi Exit Discriminator.
- MTU¶
An acronym for Maximum Transmission Unit.
- NACM¶
An acronym for NETCONF Access Control Model.
- NAT¶
An acronym for Network Address Translation.
- NDP¶
An acronym for Neighbor Discover Protocol.
- NETCONF¶
Short for Network Configuration Protocol.
- NMS¶
An acronym for Network Monitoring System.
- OSPF¶
An acronym for Open Shortest Path First.
- PA¶
An acronym for Physical Addresses.
- PKI¶
An acronym for Public Key Infrastructure.
- QAT¶
An acronym for Intel®’s QuickAssist Technology.
- RDMA¶
An acronym for Remote Direct Memory Access.
- SNMP¶
An acronym for Simple Network Management Protocol.
- SPAN¶
An acronym for Switch Port Analyzer.
- SSH¶
An acronym for Secure Shell.
- TCP¶
An acronym for Transmission Control Protocol.
- TEB¶
An acronym for Transparent Ethernet Bridging.
- TSO¶
An acronym for TCP Segmentation Offload.
- UDP¶
An acronym for User Datagram Protocol.
- UIO¶
An acronym for Userspace Input/Output.
- VA¶
An acronym for Virtual Address.
- VLAN¶
Short for Virtual LAN.
- VM¶
An acronym for Virtual Machine.
- VPN¶
An acronym for Virtual Private Network.
- VR¶
An acronym for Virtual Router.
- VRF¶
Virtual Routing and Forwarding (VRF) is a feature which uses isolated L3 domains with alternate routing tables for specific interfaces and dynamic routing purposes.
- VRRP¶
Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol (VRRP) is a protocol which allows routers to coordinate control of IP addresses between multiple nodes acting as a single “virtual” router cluster.
- VXLAN¶
Short for Virtual Extensible LAN.
- WAN¶
An acronym for Wide Area Network.
- YANG¶
Yet Another Next Generation (YANG) is a data modeling language used to model configuration and state data manipulated by NETCONF.
Note
Though technically abbreviations read letter by letter are initialisms, not acronyms, this document refers to both as acronyms to be more accessible to readers.