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C. Acronyms and Abbreviations
In most cases, acronyms and abbreviations are defined on first use in this document. Acronyms
and abbreviations are also defined in the following table.
Table 249. Acronyms and Abbreviations
Acronym Definition
802.1x IEEE 802.1x Authentication Protocol Standard
ACE Access Control Entry
ACL Access Control List
API Application Programming Interface
ARP Address Resolution Protocol
BGP Border Gateway Protocol
CLI Command Line Interface
CoS Class of Service
Default Gateway The IP address of a router that a host can use as its first hop when the host does not
know a more specific route to a given destination.
Default Route A manually configured (static) route whose destination is 0.0.0.0/0.0.0.0 and therefore
matches every packet’s destination. A router uses a default route to forward packets that
do not match a more specific route.
DHCP Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (RFC 2131, RFC3315). A mechanism for
allocating IP addresses dynamically so that addresses can be reused when hosts no
longer need them.
DHCP Server Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol Servers are servers that grant the address and do
parameter assignment to requested clients in the network. Current interest is that these
servers provide TFTP server and boot file information.
DLL Data Link Layer
DNS Server Domain Name System servers that provide the IP address mapping to the name of the
hosts.
DSCP Differentiated Services Code Point