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User Guide
January 2010
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LOSSARY
Item
ARP
BACS
BASP
DNS
G-ARP
Generic Trunking (FEC/GEC)/802.3ad-Draft Static
HSRP
ICMP
IGMP
IP
IPv6
iSCSI
L2
L4
LACP
Link Aggregation (802.3ad)
LOM
MAC
NDIS
NLB
PXE
RAID
Smart Load Balancing™ and Failover
Smart Load Balancing (SLB)
TCP
TOE
UDP
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Table 1: Glossary
Definition
Address Resolution Protocol
Broadcom Advanced Control Suite
Broadcom Advanced Server Program (intermediate driver)
domain name service
Gratuitous Address Resolution Protocol
Switch-dependent load balancing and failover type of team
in which the intermediate driver manages outgoing traffic
and the switch manages incoming traffic.
Hot Standby Router Protocol
Internet Control Message Protocol
Internet Group Management Protocol
Internet Protocol
Version 6 of the IP Protocol
Internet Small Computer Systems Interface
Layer 2. Used to describe network traffic that is not
offloaded, and where hardware only performs Layer 2
operations on the traffic. Layer 3 (IP) and Layer 4 (TCP)
protocols are processed in software.
Layer 4. Used to describe network traffic that is heavily
offloaded to the hardware, where much of the Layer 3 (IP)
and Layer 4 (TCP) processing is done in the hardware to
improve performance.
Link Aggregation Control Protocol
Switch-dependent load balancing and failover type of team
with LACP in which the intermediate driver manages
outgoing traffic and the switch manages incoming traffic.
LAN on Motherboard
media access control
Network Driver Interface Specification
Network Load Balancing (Microsoft)
Preboot Execution Environment
redundant array of inexpensive disks
Switch-independent failover type of team in which the
primary team member handles all incoming and outgoing
traffic while the standby team member is idle until a failover
event (for example, loss of link occurs). The intermediate
driver (BASP) manages incoming/outgoing traffic.
Switch-independent load balancing and failover type of
team, in which the intermediate driver manages outgoing/
incoming traffic.
Transmission Control Protocol
TCP Offload Engine. This is the hardware that is capable of
handling stateful fastpath offloading of TCP and IP
processing.
User Datagram Protocol
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