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SAMBA
Samba is a program running under UNIX-like operating systems that provides seamless
integration between UNIX and Microsoft Windows machines. Samba acts as file and print
servers for Microsoft Windows, IBM OS/2, and other SMB client machines. Samba uses the
Server Message Block (SMB) protocol and Common Internet File System (CIFS), which is the
underlying protocol used in Microsoft Windows networking.
Samba can be installed on a variety of operating system platforms, including Linux, most
common Unix platforms, OpenVMS, and IBM OS/2.
Samba can also register itself with the master browser on the network so that it would appear
in the listing of hosts in Microsoft Windows "Neighborhood Network".
SFP
The small form-factor pluggable (SFP) is a compact, hot-pluggable transceiver used for both
telecommunication and data communications applications. The form factor and electrical
interface are specified by a multi-source agreement (MSA). It interfaces a network device
motherboard (for a switch, router, media converter or similar device) to a fiber optic or copper
networking cable. It is a popular industry format jointly developed and supported by many
network component vendors. SFP transceivers are designed to support SONET, Gigabit
Ethernet, Fibre Channel, and other communications standards.
sFlow
sFlow is an industry standard technology for monitoring switched networks through random
sampling of packets on switch ports and time-based sampling of port counters. The sampled
packets and counters (referred to as flow samples and counter samples, respectively) are sent
as sFlow UDP datagrams to a central network traffic monitoring server. This central server is
called an sFlow receiver or sFlow collector.
Additional information can be found at http://sflow.org.
SHA
SHA is an acronym for Secure Hash Algorithm. It designed by the National Security Agency
(NSA) and published by the NIST as a U.S. Federal Information Processing Standard. Hash
algorithms compute a fixed-length digital representation (known as a message digest) of an
input data sequence (the message) of any length.
Shaper
A shaper can limit the bandwidth of transmitted frames. It is located after the ingress queues.
SMTP
SMTP is an acronym for Simple Mail Transfer Protocol. It is a text-based protocol that uses
the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) and provides a mail service modeled on the
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