HP 10:10 LAN Bridge MB Installation And Reference Manual page 104

BNC connector
Any of several connectors used for thin coaxial cable. There are male and female
connectors used to connect sections of a LAN and the "T" connector used for attaching
devices to the cable.
bridge
A device providing an intelligent connection between two otherwise independent LANs.
Bridges operate at layer 2 of the ISO OSI reference model. A bridge inspects every
packet originating on either LAN and creates a table of nodes and their locations. It
isolates the LANs from each other, allowing both sides to pass traffic internally. If a
transmission from one LAN is addressed to a node on the other LAN, the bridge transmits
it onto the other LAN for the destination node. See also address filtering.
broadcast address
The station address FFFFFF-FFFFFF. Packets intended for all nodes on a LAN use this
address as the destination address.
broadcast packet
A packet sent to all nodes on a LAN.
collision
The result of two or more nodes on a LAN transmitting at the same time, producing a
garbled transmission.
console
The ASCII terminal, or PC emulating an ASCII terminal that is connected to the bridge
and used to configure, monitor, and troubleshoot the bridge.
CRC
cyclic redundancy check
An error detection scheme used by the bridge to ensure that packets received by the
bridge have not been corrupted during transmission from the source node.
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