User's Manual Part 4
Release8
Glossary
Issue2,November2007 Draft5forRegulatoryReview 521
outdiscardscountField
How many outbound packets were discarded without errors that would
have prevented their transmission. (Some of these packets may have
been discarded to increase buffer space.)
outerrrorscountField
How many outbound packets contained errors that prevented their
transmission.
outnucastpktscount
Field
How many packets for which the higher-level protocols requested
transmission to a non-unicast (subnetwork-broadcast or subnetwork-
multicast) address. The number includes those that were discarded or
not sent.
outoctetscountField
How many octets were transmitted out of the interface, including those
that deliver framing information.
outucastpktscount
Field
How many packets for which the higher-level protocols requested
transmission to a subnetwork-unicast address. The number includes
those that were discarded or not sent.
OverridePlug
Device that enables the operator to regain control of a module that has
been locked by the No Remote Access feature, the 802.3 Link Disable
feature, or a password or IP address that cannot be recalled. This
device can be either fabricated on site or ordered.
Pentium
A registered trademark of Intel Corporation.
php‐mysql
Package group that enables the Web Server application in the
Red Hat
®
Linux
®
9 operating system to provide data from the SQL
Database Server application as PHP in the Bandwidth and
Authentication Manager (BAM) GUI.
Point‐to‐PointProtocol
Standards that RFC 1661 defines for data transmittal on the Internet.
Also known as PPP or PTP. See
http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1661.html.
PowerControl
Feature in Release 4.1 and later that allows the module to operate at
less than 18 dB less than full power to reduce self-interference.
PPTP
Point to Point Tunneling Protocol. One of several virtual private
network implementations. With the Network Address Translation
(NAT) feature enabled, Subscriber Modules do not support VPNs that
are based on this protocol. With NAT disabled, they do support VPNs
that are based on this protocol.
Prizm
The Cyclone software product that allows users to partition their entire
Cyclone networks into criteria-based subsets and independently
monitor and manage those subsets. Prizm Release 1.0 and later
includes a Northbound Interface to higher-level systems. Prizm
Release 2.0 and later integrates Cyclone Bandwidth and
Authentication Manager (BAM) functionality and supports simple
migration of a pre-existing authentication, bandwidth, and VLAN
settings into the Prizm database.