User guide

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Freeway User Guide

RFC Request For Comment is a method of establishing require-

ments for the INTERNET network (formerly, ARPANET).

These requirements form the basis for much of the LAN con-

nectivity used with Freeway, including TCP/IP, User Datagram

Protocol (UDP), telnet, SNMP, FTP, bootp, etc.

RSH Remote shell; networking software used during the boot pro-

cess to transfer files.

SCSI Small computer systems interface

SDK Software development kit

server processor The Freeway server processor board, which is capable of execut-

ing the server’s operating system and functions such as server

management.

server-resident

software (SRA)

Software that runs on the server processor board and processes

the data stream between the LAN and WAN connections.

Server-resident software can be either supplied by Protogate or

customized by the user.

service A more generalized view of resource where a grouping is made

on a per-protocol basis. For example, the FMP protocol has a

number of resources: the ICP, the ports available on the ICP,

and the protocol running on the ICP. Collectively, these

resources describe the service.

service provider A task that operates on the Freeway server processor board and

provides specific processing related to a particular service. An

example is the data link service provider which performs pro-

cessing on the server processor board to support the AWS pro-