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User Manual for the NETGEAR 7300S Series Layer 3 Managed Switch Software

100BASE-TX

The IEEE specification for 100 Mbps Fast Ethernet over Category 5 twisted-pair cable.

1000BASE-SX

The IEEE specification for 1000 Mbps Gigabit Ethernet over fiber-optic cable.

1000BASE-T

The IEEE specification for 1000 Mbps Gigabit Ethernet over Category 5 twisted-pair cable. gain access.

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ABR

See “Area Border Router” on page 2.

Access Control List

An ACL is a database that an Operating System uses to track each user’s access rights to system objects (such as file directories and/or files).

ACL

See “Access Control List” on page 2.

Address Resolution Protocol

An Internet Protocol that dynamically maps Internet addresses to physical (hardware) addresses on a LAN.

Advanced Network Device Layer/Software

Term for the Device Driver level.

Aging

When an entry for a node is added to the lookup table of a switch, it is given a timestamp. Each time a packet is received from a node, the timestamp is updated. The switch has a user-configurable timer that erases the entry after a certain length of time with no activity from that node.

Area Border Router

A router located on the border of one or more OSPF areas that connects those areas to the backbone network. ABRs are considered members of both the OSPF backbone and the attached areas. They therefore maintain routing tables describing both the backbone topology and the topology of the other areas. (Cisco Systems Inc.)

ARP

See “Address Resolution Protocol” on page 2.

C-2 Glossary

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