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GLOSSARY
1–6
Term
Station Cache A database maintained by the Ethernet bridge that tracks MAC
addresses of stations on the network and the ports associated with
them.
Syslog A protocol for sending event messages over an IP network to remote
servers called "event message collectors."
T1/E1 T1 is a widely-used T-carrier telecommunications standard capable of
transmitting 1.544 Mbits/second. The T1 designation is used in North
America. The analogous system outside of North America is called E1.
TCP Transmission Control Protocol.
TLS Transport Layer Security.
UDP User Datagram Protocol. One of the communications protocols of the
Internet Protocol Suite. Replaces TCP when a reliable delivery is not
required.
URL Uniform Resource Locator.
VID VLAN Identifier.
VLAN Virtual Local Area Network. A logical subgroup within a local area
network that is created with software rather than by physically
manipulating cables.
WAN Wide Area Network.
WFQ Weighted Fair Queueing. A packet scheduling technique that enables
several data flows to use the same link.
X.509 An X.509 certificate is a message that contains an entity's credentials.
Information such as the entity's name, organization, and contact
information are included.
XML eXtensible Markup Language
XON/XOFF A software flow control protocol in which a receiver sends an XOFF
character to a transmitter to signal that it is unable to receive data
and an XON character to signal that it is able to receive data.
MULTINET4 MULTI-PORT SERIAL SERVER & MANAGED SWITCH – INSTRUCTION MANUAL
CHAPTER 1: GLOSSARY
Definition