EEPROM | Electrically Erasable/Programmable Read- |
| Only Memory. |
factory defaults | Settings shipped with the NIC. |
Factory Settings | S2 jumper position stating all factory |
| default settings are to be used while the |
| NIC is up and running. |
Firmware Panic | Unrecoverable errors detected by the NIC |
| firmware force the Print Server into |
| Firmware Panic mode. Manually reset the |
| NIC to resume operation. |
Flash | Stores firmware code and configurable |
| settings. Allows for upgrades without |
| replacing hardware inside the NIC. |
FTP | File Transfer Protocol. Used for |
| transferring files from one TCP/IP host to |
| another and used in the upgrade process. |
gateway | Hardware device that translates data |
| between two incompatible networks. |
gateway address | The IP address of a gateway. |
Hardware Exception | Bus errors, address errors, and illegal |
| instructions force the NIC into this |
| NIC |
HTML | HyperText Markup Language. Format |
| used for documents viewable on the World |
| Wide Web. |
ifnum | Interface Number. Represents the network |
| interface. With a NIC, this will always be |
| “1” for Ethernet. |
interface script | Unix host filter file that processes the print |
| job before it is sent over the network to the |
| NIC. |
I/O port | Port for attaching peripherals to. The NIC |
| provides four: PRN1, PRN2, COM1, |
| COM2. |
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