9032785 Acronyms & Abbreviations 97
APPENDIX F. ACRONYMS & ABBREVIATIONS
Term Definition
10Base-T 10Mbps twisted-pair Ethernet
100Base-FX 100Mbps fiber Fast Ethernet
100Base-TX 100Mbps twisted-pair Fast Ethernet
ANSI American National Standards Institute
ASIC Application Specific Inte
g
rated Circuit
BootP Bootstrap Protocol
BPDU Brid
g
e Protocol Data Unit
CAT5 Cate
g
ory 5
CoS Class of Service
CRC Cyclic Redundancy Check
CSMA/CD Carrier Sense Multiple Access/Collision Detection
DCE Data Communications Equipment (modem)
DHCP Dynamic Host Confi
g
uration Protocol
DSR Data Send Ready
DTE Data Terminal Equipment
DTR Data Terminal Ready
ICMP Internet Contro l Messa
g
e Protocol
IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronics En
g
ineers
IP Internet Protocol
LAN Local Area Network
MAC Media Access Control
LED Li
g
ht Emittin
g
Diode
MDI Media Device Interface
MIB Mana
g
ement Information Base
PVID Port VLAN ID
RFC Request for Comment
RMON Remote Monitorin
g