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AIS V3.3 Protocol Config Ref Vol 1


Appendix C. List of Abbreviations

AARP
AppleTalk Address Resolution Protocol

ABR
area border router

ack
acknowledgment

AIX
Advanced Interactive Executive

AMA
arbitrary MAC addressing

AMP
active monitor present

ANSI
American National Standards Institute

AP2
AppleTalk Phase 2

APPN
Advanced Peer-to-Peer Networking

ARE
all-routes explorer

ARI/FCI
address recognized indicator/frame copied indicator

ARP
Address Resolution Protocol

AS
autonomous system

ASBR
autonomous system boundary router

ASCII
American National Standard Code for Information Interchange

ASN.1
abstract syntax notation 1

ASRT
adaptive source routing transparent

ASYNC
asynchronous

ATCP
AppleTalk Control Protocol

ATP
AppleTalk Transaction Protocol

AUI
attachment unit interface

ayt
are you there

BAN
Boundary Access Node

BBCM
Bridging Broadcast Manager

BECN
backward explicit congestion notification

BGP
Border Gateway Protocol

BNC
bayonet Niell-Concelman

BNCP
Bridging Network Control Protocol

BOOTP
BOOT protocol

BPDU
bridge protocol data unit

bps
bits per second

BR
bridging/routing

BRS
bandwidth reservation

BSD
Berkeley software distribution

BTP
BOOTP relay agent

BTU
basic transmission unit

CAM
content-addressable memory

CCITT
Consultative Committee on International Telegraph and Telephone

CD
collision detection

CGWCON
Gateway Console

CIDR
Classless Inter-Domain Routing

CIP
Classical IP

CIR
committed information rate

CLNP
Connectionless-Mode Network Protocol

CPU
central processing unit

CRC
cyclic redundancy check

CRS
configuration report server

CTS
clear to send

CUD
call user data

DAF
destination address filtering

DB
database

DBsum
database summary

DCD
data channel received line signal detector

DCE
data circuit-terminating equipment

DCS
Directly connected server

DDLC
dual data-link controller

DDN
Defense Data Network

DDP
Datagram Delivery Protocol

DDT
Dynamic Debugging Tool

DHCP
Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol

dir
directly connected

DL
data link

DLC
data link control

DLCI
data link connection identifier

DLS
data link switching

DLSw
data link switching

DMA
direct memory access

DNA
Digital Network Architecture

DNCP
DECnet Protocol Control Protocol

DNIC
Data Network Identifier Code

DoD
Department of Defense

DOS
Disk Operating System

DR
designated router

DRAM
Dynamic Random Access Memory

DSAP
destination service access point

DSE
data switching equipment

DSE
data switching exchange

DSR
data set ready

DSU
data service unit

DTE
data terminal equipment

DTR
data terminal ready

Dtype
destination type

DVMRP
Distance Vector Multicast Routing Protocol

E1
2.048 Mbps transmission rate

EDEL
end delimiter

EDI
error detected indicator

EGP
Exterior Gateway Protocol

EIA
Electronics Industries Association

ELAN
Emulated LAN

ELAP
EtherTalk Link Access Protocol

ELS
Event Logging System

ELSCon
Secondary ELS Console

ESI
End system identifier

EST
Eastern Standard Time

Eth
Ethernet

fa-ga
functional address-group address

FCS
frame check sequence

FECN
forward explicit congestion notification

FIFO
first in, first out

FLT
filter library

FR
Frame Relay

FRL
Frame Relay

FTP
File Transfer Protocol

GMT
Greenwich Mean Time

GOSIP
Government Open Systems Interconnection Profile

GTE
General Telephone Company

GWCON
Gateway Console

HDLC
high-level data link control

HEX
hexadecimal

HPR
high-performance routing

HST
TCP/IP host services

HTF
host table format

IBD
Integrated Boot Device

ICMP
Internet Control Message Protocol

ICP
Internet Control Protocol

ID
identification

IDP
Initial Domain Part

IDP
Internet Datagram Protocol

IEEE
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

Ifc#
interface number

IGP
interior gateway protocol

InARP
Inverse Address Resolution Protocol

IP
Internet Protocol

IPCP
IP Control Protocol

IPPN
IP Protocol Network

IPX
Internetwork Packet Exchange

IPXCP
IPX Control Protocol

ISDN
integrated services digital network

ISO
International Organization for Standardization

Kbps
kilobits per second

LAN
local area network

LAPB
link access protocol-balanced

LAT
local area transport

LCS
LAN Channel Station

LCP
Link Control Protocol

LED
light-emitting diode

LF
largest frame; line feed

LIS
Logical IP subnet

LLC
logical link control

LLC2
logical link control 2

LMI
local management interface

LRM
LAN reporting mechanism

LS
link state

LSA
link state advertisement

LSA
Link Services Architecture

LSB
least significant bit

LSI
LAN shortcuts interface

LSreq
link state request

LSrxl
link state retransmission list

LU
logical unit

MAC
medium access control

Mb
megabit

MB
megabyte

Mbps
megabits per second

MBps
megabytes per second

MC
multicast

MCF
MAC filtering

MIB
Management Information Base

MIB II
Management Information Base II

MILNET
military network

MOS
Micro Operating System

MOSDBG
Micro Operating System Debugging Tool

MOSPF
Open Shortest Path First with multicast extensions

MPC
Multi-Path Channel

MPC+
High performance data transfer (HPDT) Multi-Path Channel

MSB
most significant bit

MSDU
MAC service data unit

MRU
maximum receive unit

MTU
maximum transmission unit

nak
not acknowledged

NAS
Nways Switch Administration station

NBMA
Non-Broadcast Multiple Access

NBP
Name Binding Protocol

NBR
neighbor

NCP
Network Control Protocol

NCP
Network Core Protocol

NDPS
non-disruptive path switching

NetBIOS
Network Basic Input/Output System

NHRP
Next Hop Resolution Protocol

NIST
National Institute of Standards and Technology

NPDU
Network Protocol Data Unit

NRZ
non-return-to-zero

NRZI
non-return-to-zero inverted

NSAP
Network Service Access Point

NSF
National Science Foundation

NSFNET
National Science Foundation NETwork

NVCNFG
nonvolatile configuration

OPCON
Operator Console

OSI
open systems interconnection

OSICP
OSI Control Protocol

OSPF
Open Shortest Path First

OUI
organization unique identifier

PC
personal computer

PCR
peak cell rate

PDN
public data network

PING
Packet internet groper

PDU
protocol data unit

PID
process identification

P-P
Point-to-Point

PPP
Point-to-Point Protocol

PROM
programmable read-only memory

PU
physical unit

PVC
permanent virtual circuit

RAM
random access memory

RD
route descriptor

REM
ring error monitor

REV
receive

RFC
Request for Comments

RI
ring indicator; routing information

RIF
routing information field

RII
routing information indicator

RIP
Routing Information Protocol

RISC
reduced instruction-set computer

RNR
receive not ready

ROM
read-only memory

ROpcon
Remote Operator Console

RPS
ring parameter server

RTMP
Routing Table Maintenance Protocol

RTP
RouTing update Protocol

RTS
request to send

Rtype
route type

rxmits
retransmissions

rxmt
retransmit

s
second

SAF
source address filtering

SAP
service access point

SAP
Service Advertising Protocol

SCR
Sustained cell rate

SCSP
Server Cache Synchronization Protocol

sdel
start delimiter

SDLC
SDLC relay, synchronous data link control

seqno
sequence number

SGID
sever group id

SGMP
Simple Gateway Monitoring Protocol

SL
serial line

SMP
standby monitor present

SMTP
Simple Mail Transfer Protocol

SNA
Systems Network Architecture

SNAP
Subnetwork Access Protocol

SNMP
Simple Network Management Protocol

SNPA
subnetwork point of attachment

SPF
OSPF intra-area route

SPE1
OSPF external route type 1

SPE2
OSPF external route type 2

SPIA
OSPF inter-area route type

SPID
service profile ID

SPX
Sequenced Packet Exchange

SQE
signal quality error

SRAM
static random access memory

SRB
source routing bridge

SRF
specifically routed frame

SRLY
SDLC relay

SRT
source routing transparent

SR-TB
source routing-transparent bridge

STA
static

STB
spanning tree bridge

STE
spanning tree explorer

STP
shielded twisted pair; spanning tree protocol

SVC
switched virtual circuit

TB
transparent bridge

TCN
topology change notification

TCP
Transmission Control Protocol

TCP/IP
Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol

TEI
terminal point identifier

TFTP
Trivial File Transfer Protocol

TKR
token ring

TMO
timeout

TOS
type of service

TSF
transparent spanning frames

TTL
time to live

TTY
teletypewriter

TX
transmit

UA
unnumbered acknowledgment

UDP
User Datagram Protocol

UI
unnumbered information

UTP
unshielded twisted pair

VCC
Virtual Channel Connection

VINES
VIrtual NEtworking System

VIR
variable information rate

VL
virtual link

VNI
Virtual Network Interface

VR
virtual route

WAN
wide area network

WRS
WAN restoral/reroute

X.25
packet-switched networks

X.251
X.25 physical layer

X.252
X.25 frame layer

X.253
X.25 packet layer

XID
exchange identification

XNS
Xerox Network Systems

XSUM
checksum

ZIP
AppleTalk Zone Information Protocol

ZIP2
AppleTalk Zone Information Protocol 2

ZIT
Zone Information Table


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