HP Auto Port Aggregation Administrator's Guide for HP-UX 11i v1 and 11i v2 September 2008

M
MAC Media Access Control
MANUAL The default mode of port configuration. Can be performed by using SMH (preferred) or by
editing two configuration files.
MIB Management Information Base
N
network adapter A network device which has one or more network physical ports.
network physical
port
The communications channel formed when you attach a network cable between a specific
network port (adapter card) and a LAN device.
P
PAgP See Port Aggregation Protocol.
PCI Peripheral Component Interconnect
physical point of
attachment
See PPA.
port The communications channel formed when you attach a network cable between a network
physical port and a LAN device.
port aggregate See link aggregate.
port aggregation See link aggregate.
Port Aggregation
Protocol (PAgP)
The proprietary port aggregation protocol, developed by Cisco Systems Inc., which automatically
determines a bidirectional connection between two network physical ports.
port priority An integer value used to determine which network physical port will be used as the port in a
link aggregate in hot standby mode.
PPA A unique integer identifier for each network physical port installed on a server.
S
SAM System Administration Manager
server–to–router See LB_IP.
server–to–server See LB_PORT.
server–to–switch See LB_MAC.
T
TCP Transmission Control Protocol
trunk See link aggregate.
TSO TCP Segmentation Offload
128 Glossary