APPENDIX B
ACRONYMS
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Querier Election
Querier election is used to dedicate the Querier, the only one router sends Query messages, on a particular link.
Querier election rule defines that IGMP Querier or MLD Querier with the lowest IPv4/IPv6 address wins the election.
RARP
RARP is an acronym for Reverse Address Resolution Protocol. It is a protocol that is used to obtain an IP address for
a given hardware address, such as an Ethernet address. RARP is the complement of ARP.
RADIUS
RADIUS is an acronym for Remote Authentication Dial In User Service. It is a networking protocol that provides
centralized access, authorization and accounting management for people or computers to connect and use a network
service.
RDI
RDI is an acronym for Remote Defect Indication. It is a OAM functionality that is used by a MEP to indicate defect
detected to the remote peer MEP.
Router Port
A router port is a port on the Ethernet switch that leads switch towards the Layer 3 multicast device.
RSTP
In 1998, the IEEE with document 802.1w introduced an evolution of STP: the Rapid Spanning Tree Protocol, which
provides for faster spanning tree convergence after a topology change. Standard IEEE 802.1D-2004 now incorporates
RSTP and obsoletes STP, while at the same time being backwards-compatible with STP.
SAMBA
Samba is a program running under UNIX-like operating systems (not the Brazilian dance) that provides seamless
integration between UNIX and Microsoft Windows machines. Samba acts as file and print servers for Microsoft
Windows, IBM OS/2, and other SMB client machines. Samba uses the Server Message Block (SMB) protocol and
Common Internet File System (CIFS), which is the underlying protocol used in Microsoft Windows networking.
Samba can be installed on a variety of operating system platforms, including Linux, most common Unix platforms,
OpenVMS, and IBM OS/2.
Samba can also register itself with the master browser on the network so that it would appear in the listing of hosts
in Microsoft Windows "Neighborhood Network".
sFlow
sFlow is an industry standard technology for monitoring switched networks through random sampling of packets on
switch ports and time-based sampling of port counters. The sampled packets and counters (referred to as flow
samples and counter samples, respectively) are sent as sFlow UDP datagrams to a central network traffic monitoring
server. This central server is called an sFlow receiver or sFlow collector.
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SHA
SHA is an acronym for Secure Hash Algorithm. It designed by the National Security Agency (NSA) and published by
the NIST as a U.S. Federal Information Processing Standard. Hash algorithms compute a fixed-length digital
representation (known as a message digest) of an input data sequence (the message) of any length.
Shaper
A shaper can limit the bandwidth of transmitted frames. It is located after the ingress queues.
SMTP
SMTP is an acronym for Simple Mail Transfer Protocol. It is a text-based protocol that uses the Transmission Control
Protocol (TCP) and provides a mail service modeled on the FTP file transfer service. SMTP transfers mail messages
between systems and notifications regarding incoming mail.
SNAP
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