Appendix A  Acronyms

Acronyms

Full spelling

A

AAA

Authentication, Authorization and Accounting

ABR

Area Border Router

ACL

Access Control List

ARP

Address Resolution Protocol

AS

Autonomous System

ASBR

Autonomous System Border Router

B

BDR

Backup Designated Router

C

CAR

Committed Access Rate

CLI

Command Line Interface

CoS

Class of Service

D

DHCP

Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol

DR

Designated Router

D-V

Distance Vector Routing Algorithm

E

EGP

Exterior Gateway Protocol

F

FTP

File Transfer Protocol

G

GARP

Generic Attribute Registration Protocol

GE

Gigabit Ethernet

GVRP

GARP VLAN Registration Protocol

GMRP

GARP Multicast Registration Protocol

H

HGMP

Huawei Group Management Protocol

I

IAB

Internet Architecture Board

ICMP

Internet Control Message Protocol

IGMP

Internet Group Management Protocol

IGP

Interior Gateway Protocol

IP

Internet Protocol

IRF

Intelligent Resilient Framework

L

LSA

Link State Advertisement

LSDB

Link State DataBase

M

MAC

Medium Access Control

MIB

Management Information Base

N

NBMA

Non Broadcast MultiAccess

NIC

Network Information Center

NMS

Network Management System

NVRAM

Nonvolatile RAM

O

OSPF

Open Shortest Path First

P

PIM

Protocol Independent Multicast

PIM-DM

Protocol Independent Multicast-Dense Mode

PIM-SM

Protocol Independent Multicast-Sparse Mode

PoE

Power over Ethernet

Q

QoS

Quality of Service

R

RIP

Routing Information Protocol

RMON

Remote Network Monitoring

RSTP

Rapid Spanning Tree Protocol

S

SNMP

Simple Network Management Protocol

SP

Strict Priority

STP

Spanning Tree Protocol

T

TCP/IP

Transmission Control Protocol/ Internet Protocol

TFTP

Trivial File Transfer Protocol

ToS

Type of Service

TTL

Time To Live

U

UDP

User Datagram Protocol

V

VLAN

Virtual LAN

VOD

Video On Demand

VRRP

Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol

W

WRR

Weighted Round Robin

X

XID

Exchange Identification