Appendix B  Acronyms

AAA

Authentication, Authorization and Accounting

ACK

Acknowledgement

ACL

Access Control List

ARP

Address Resolution Protocol

ASCII

American Standard Code for Information Interchange

ASPF

Application Specific Packet Filter

ATM

Asynchronous Transfer Mode

AUX

Auxiliary port

BGP

Border Gateway Protocol

BOOTP

Bootstrap Protocol

CHAP

Challenge-Handshake Authentication Protocol

DHCP

Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol

DNS

Domain Name System

FE

Fast Ethernet

FIB

Forward Information Base

FIFO

First In First Out

FLASH

FLASH memory

FR

Frame Relay

FTP

File Transfer Protocol

GE

Gigabit Ethernet

HDLC

High-level Data Link Control

ICMP

Internet Control Message Protocol

ID

Identity

IKE

Internet Key Exchange

IP

Internet Protocol

IPSEC

IP Security

ISIS

Intermediate System-to-Intermediate System intradomain routing information exchange protocol

L2TP

Layer Two Forwarding Protocol

LAN

Local Area Network

LDP

Label Distribution Protocol

LSP

Link State Protocol Data Unit

LSPM

Label Switch Path Management

MAC

Medium Access Control

MD5

Message-Digest algorithm 5

MIB

Management Information Base

MODEM

Modulator-Demodulator

MPLSFW

Multi-Protocol Label Switch Forward

MSDP

Multicast Source Discovery Protocol

MTU

Maximum Transfer Unit

NAS

Network Access Server

NAT

Network Address Translation

NetBIOS

Network Basic Input/Output System

NMS

Network Management Station

NT

Network Terminal

NTP

NTP

NVRAM

Non-Volatile Random Access Memory

OSPF

Open Shortest Path First

PAP

Password Authentication Protocol

PHY

Physical Sublayer & Physical Layer

PPP

Point to Point Protocol

PPPOE

Point-to-Point Protocol Over Ethernet

QoS

Quality of Service

RADIUS

Remote Authentication Dial In User Service

RFC

Request For Comments

RIP

Routing Information Protocol

RSA

Rivest, Shamir and Adleman

SLIP

Serial Line Internet Protocol

SNAP

Simple Mail Transfer Protocol

SNMP

Simple Network Management Protocol

SSH

Secure Shell

TCP

Transmission Control Protocol

TFTP

Trivial File Transfer Protocol

TTL

Time To Live

UDP

User Datagram Protocol

UTC

Universal Coordinated Time

VLAN

Virtual Local Area Network

VOS

Virtual Operating System

VPN

Virtual Private Network

VRRP

Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol

VTY

Virtual Type Terminal

WINS

Windows Internet Naming Service

WWW

World Wide Web