Cisco Systems SMNMADPTR manual Glossary

			Glossary
Glossary
	AAA	Authentication, authorization, and accounting, pronounced triple A.
	access list	A list kept by routers to control access to or from the router for a number of
		services (for example, to prevent packets with a certain IP address from
		leaving a particular interface on the router).
	AIM	Asynchronous interface module. Type of network module.
	appliance	Alternate term for network module.
	ARP	Address Resolution Protocol. Internet protocol used to map an IP address to
		a MAC address.
	blade	Alternate term for network module.
	boothelper	See helper.
	bootloader	A small set of system software that runs when the system first powers up. It
		loads the operating system (from the disk, network, external flash, or
		external USB flash), which loads and runs the NME-NAM-120S application.
		The bootloader might optionally load and run the boothelper.
	CEF	Cisco Express Forwarding
	DSMON	Differentiated Services Monitoring
	Flooding	Traffic passing technique used by switches and bridges in which traffic
		received on an interface is sent out all the interfaces of that device except the
		interface on which the information was received originally.
	FTP	File Transfer Protocol. Application protocol, part of the TCP/IP protocol
		stack, used for transferring files between network nodes.
	GRE	Generic routing encapsulation. Tunneling protocol developed by Cisco that
		can encapsulate a wide variety of protocol packet types inside IP tunnels,
		creating a virtual point-to-point link to Cisco routers at remote points over
		an IP internetwork. By connecting multiprotocol subnetworks in a
		single-protocol backbone environment, IP tunneling using GRE allows
		network expansion across a single-protocol backbone environment.
	GUI	Graphical user interface. A user environment that uses pictorial as well as
		textual representations of the input and the output of applications and the
		hierarchical or other data structure in which information is stored. Such
		conventions as buttons, icons, and windows are typical, and many actions are
		performed using a pointing device (such as a mouse). Microsoft Windows
		and the Apple Macintosh are prominent examples of platforms using a GUI.
	helper	A small subset of the system software that runs on the module. It boots the
	(previously known as module from the network and assists in software installation and upgrades,
	boothelper)	disaster recovery, and other operations when the module cannot access its
		software.
	IP Multicast	Routing technique that allows IP traffic to be propagated from one source to
		a number of destinations or from many sources to many destinations. Rather
		than sending one packet to each destination, one packet is sent to a multicast
		group identified by a single IP destination group address.
	Cisco Branch Routers Series Network Analysis Module (NME-NAM-120S) Installation and Configuration Note, 4.0
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