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Glossary
One of a group of alarm conditions that are considered the third most severe of all reportable alarms.
Minor alarm
Minor alarms affect a single or small number of subscribers who connect to the reporting node. You
can use the show facility-alarm status IOS command to obtain more information about the problem. See
also
Multilink Point-to-Point Protocol. A method of splitting, recombining, and sequencing datagrams
MLP
across multiple logical data links.
Maximum transmission unit. Maximum packet size, in bytes, that a particular interface can handle.
MTU
See MLP.
Multilink
Point-to-Point
N
Network Equipment Building Systems. The Bellcore requirement for equipment deployed in a central
NEBS
office environment. Covers spatial and thermal requirements as well as requirements for hardware,
crafts person interface, fire resistance, handling and transportation, earthquake and vibration, airborne
contaminants, grounding, acoustical noise, illumination, EMC, and ESD.
See NEBS.
Network Equipment
Building Systems
See NVRAM.
Nonvolatile RAM
Nonvolatile RAM. RAM that retains its contents when a unit is powered off.
NVRAM
P
Logical grouping of information that includes a header containing control information and (usually)
Packet
user data. Packets are most often used to refer to network layer units of data. The terms datagram,
frame, message, and segment are also used to describe logical information groupings at various layers
of the OSI reference model and in various technology circles.
See POS.
Packet over SONET
A portable (credit-card size), nonvolatile storage device. PCMCIA Flash disk cards use Flash
PCMCIA Flash disk
card technology to store data. PCMCIA stands for Personal Computer Memory Card International
Association, which sets the standard for this technology. Also called PC card.
See PRE.
Performance
Routing Engine
See PPP.
Point-to-Point
Protocol
Cisco 10000 Series Router Line Card Configuration Guide
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Critical alarm and Major alarm.
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