Glossary - SMC Networks 6724L2 - annexe 1 Management Manual

Bandwidth Utilization
The historical percentage of packets received as compared to total
bandwidth.
BOOTP
Boot protocol used to load the operating system for devices
connected to the network.
GARP VLAN Registration Protocol (GVRP)
Defines a way for switches to exchange VLAN information in order
to register necessary VLAN members on ports along the Spanning
Tree so that VLANs defined in each switch can work automatically
over a Spanning Tree network.
Generic Attribute Registration Protocol (GARP)
GARP is a protocol that can be used by endstations and switches
to register and propagate multicast group membership information
in a switched environment so that multicast data frames are
propagated only to those parts of a switched LAN containing
registered endstations. Formerly called Group Address Registration
Protocol.
Generic Multicast Registration Protocol (GMRP)
GMRP allows network devices to register endstations with
multicast groups. GMRP requires that any participating network
devices or endstations comply with the IEEE 802.1p standard.
Group Attribute Registration Protocol
See Generic Attribute Registration Protocol.
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