User`s guide

Glossary
Broadcast packets
Glossary-2 Preliminary January 30, 1998 Pipeline User’s Guide
Broadcast packets—
Those sent to all users on a network, even if they are for
only one user. When the Pipeline is defined as a bridge, they can cause the unit to
dial out.
Dialing out versus initiating a session—
Anytime the Pipeline initiates a
session with a remote network it dials out, but you don’t have to dial or connect
to Dial-Up networking, as all the dialing is done automatically. If you want to
dial manually, use the DO Dial command. (See the “DO Command Reference” in
the Reference Guide.)
Ethernet-to-ISDN routing—
The Pipeline is an Ethernet-to-ISDN router.
When you connect a Pipeline to a computer, you set up a network that uses
Ethernet to carry the local network traffic. When data needs to reach a destination
that is not on your local network, the data is forwarded to the Pipeline to be
routed to the remote network. Before the Pipeline routes the data to the remote
network, it removes the Ethernet information and repackages the data so that it
can be transported over an ISDN signal through the public switched telephone
network. When data comes into the Pipeline from a remote network, it extracts
the data from the ISDN signal, adds Ethernet information, and places the data on
your local Ethernet network.
Filter—
Means to deliberately allow or disallow certain packets into the network.
Frame Relay—
A service provided by the telephone company to transport data,
where the line is always connected (nailed). Once the connection is established, it
remains connected until either end physically disconnects the line or loses power.
IP—
Internet Protocol, an addressing standard used in TCP/IP networks.
IPX—
Internetwork Packet Exchange, and is used in Novell networks.
LCD interface—
A term used to refer to the menu-driven Pipeline software.
Originally, the menus were viewable in a palm-top Liquid Crystal Display (LCD)
device. It is now referred to as the VT-100 interface because you use a VT-100
terminal emulation window to view the menus.
Packet—
Refers to a block of data that has a definite order of information. Each
packet contains a “packet header” that includes in it the sender’s and recipient’s