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.