Oracle^® Quad Port 10GBase-T Adapter User's Guide

Glossary

A

ACT

Activity LED. Indicates that the port is up and running.

adapter

The Oracle Quad Port 10GBase-T Adapter.

D

DHCP

Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol. Part of the application layer in the Internet protocol suite.

DNS

Domain name system. Translates human-readable domain names into numerical identifiers.

E

EEPROM

Electronically erasable programmable read-only memory.

EMI

Electromagnetic interference. The interference caused by the magnetic fields of electronic components.

G

Gb

Gigabyte.

GbE

Gigabit Ethernet.

Gbps

Gigabits-per-second.

GT

Gigabit-transfer.

GTps

GTs-per-second.

L

LFM

Linear Feet per minute.

LNK

Link LED. Indicates that the network link is up and running.

M

MAC

Media access control. Enables the use of a unique address for each device on a network.

Mb

Megabit.

Mbps

Megabits-per-second.

MTU

Maximum transmission unit. The MTU (payload without the Ethernet header) affects how jumbo frames function.

N

NIS

Network Information Service. Originally known as Yellow Pages, NIS is a protocol for distributed system configuration data.

P

PCI

Peripheral Component Interconnect.

PCIe

PCI Express.

PF

Physical function.

PXE

Preboot execution environment. Enables clients to boot over a network interface, independent of the OS or other devices.

R

ROM

Read-only memory.

RPM

RPM Package Manager.

RX

Response. The automatic response mechanism used by Ethernet PAUSE frames.

S

SRC

Source code. The SRC RPM is used in Linux to build the driver kernel files.

T

TCP

Transmission Control Protocol. Part of the transport layer of the Internet protocol suite.

TCP/IP

Transmission Control Protocol and Internet Protocol. In this guide, TCP/IP refers to the TCP/IP model, which is a framework for the IP suite.

TX

Generation. The automatic generation mechanism used by the Ethernet PAUSE frames.

U

UDP

User Datagram Protocol. Part of the transport layer of the Internet protocol suite.

UEFI

Unified Extensible Firmware Interface. Manages the operations between hardware firmware and the OS during the boot time.

V

VID

VLAN identifier. A 12-bit identifier in an Ethernet header.

VLAN

Virtual LAN. Splits the physical LAN into logical subparts. Multiple VLANs are supported on a single port, enabling a server with a single adapter to have a logical presence on multiple IP subnets.

VXLAN

Virtual eXtensive LAN. A tunneling mechanism for providing isolated virtual Layer 2 (L2) segments that can span multiple physical L2 segments.