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cannot be equated to bandwidth unless the number of bits per
symbol is known.
BogoMips
A measurement of processor speed made by the Linux kernel
when it boots, to calibrate an internal busy-loop.
Bonding (Linux)
Ability to detect communication failure transparently, and switch
from one LAN connection to another. The Linux bonding driver
has the ability to detect link failure and reroute network traffic
around a failed link in a manner transparent to the application. It
also has the ability (with certain network switches) to aggregate
network traffic in all working links to achieve higher throughput.
The bonding driver accomplishes this by enslaving all of the
Ethernet ports in the bond to the same Ethernet MAC address,
which ensures the proper routing of packets across the links.
Boot
To start a computer so that it is ready to run programs for the user.
A PC can be booted either by turning its power on, (Cold Boot) or
by pressing Ctrl+Alt+Del (Warm Boot).
Bootp
Bootstrap Protocol. A TCP/IP protocol allowing a
BOOTP
server node to allocate IP addresses to
diskless work stations
at startup.
CAT5 Category 5. A cabling standard for use on networks at speeds up
to 100 Mbits including FDDI and 100base-T. The 5 refers to the
number of turns per inch with which the cable is constructed.
Console
Terminal used to configure network devices at boot (start-up)
time. Also used to refer to the keyboard, video and mouse user
interface to a server.
Checksum
A computed value which depends on the contents of a block of
data and which is transmitted or stored along with the data in
order to detect corruption of the data. The receiving system
recomputes the checksum based upon the received data and
compares this value with the one sent with the data. If the two
values are the same, the receiver has some confidence that the
data was received correctly.