Cisco ASA 5505 Configuration Manual page 1784

Glossary
Media Gateway Control Protocol. Media Gateway Control Protocol is a protocol for the control of
MGCP
VoIP calls by external call-control elements known as media gateway controllers or call agents. MGCP
merges the IPDC and
See
Mode
See
Mode Config
A means of configuring adaptive security appliance features in a manner similar to Cisco IOS software
Modular Policy
Framework Modular
mobile station. Refers generically to any mobile device, such as a mobile handset or computer, that is
MS
used to access network services.
of operation supported within the
A MS supports simultaneous operation of
Microsoft CHAP.
MS-CHAP
maximum transmission unit. The maximum number of bytes in a packet that can flow efficiently
MTU
across the network with best response time. For Ethernet, the default MTU is 1500 bytes, but each
network can have different values, with serial connections having the smallest values. The MTU is
described in RFC 1191.
Refers to a network addressing method in which the source transmits a packet to multiple destinations,
multicast
a multicast group, simultaneously. See also PIM, SMR.
N
A third-party, policy-oriented filtering application that works with the adaptive security appliance to
N2H2
control user web access. N2H2 can filter
destination IP address, username, and password. The N2H2 corporation was acquired by Secure
Computing in October, 2003.
Network Address Translation. Mechanism for reducing the need for globally unique IP addresses.
NAT
NAT allows an organization with addresses that are not globally unique to connect to the
translating those addresses into a globally routable address space.
Network Extension Mode. Lets
NEM
private network over the
Network Basic Input/Output System. A Microsoft protocol that supports Windows hostname
NetBIOS
registration, session management, and data transfer. The adaptive security appliance supports
NetBIOS by performing
See mask.
netmask
In the context of adaptive security appliance configuration, a network is a group of computing devices
network
that share part of an IP address space and not a single host. A network consists of multiple nodes or
hosts. See also host, Internet, intranet, IP, LAN, and node.
Cisco ASA 5500 Series Configuration Guide using ASDM
GL-12
SGCP protocols.
Access Modes.
IKE Mode Configuration.
QoS CLI.
VPN
NAT of the packets for NBNS UDP port 137 and NBDS UDP port 138.
GPRS networks support three classes of MS, which describe the type
GPRS and the GSM mobile wireless networks. For example, a Class
GPRS and GSM
HTTP requests based on the destination hostname,
VPN hardware clients present a single, routable network to the remote
tunnel.
services.
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