User`s guide

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Glossary

MAC

Medium access control, also called the physical layer.

MAC address

Thephysicaladdressof theGigabit Ethernet board,whichisdistinctfrom the IP address.

MTU

Maximum Transmission Unit is a conﬁguration parameter that controls the size of the

Ethernet frames that the Gigabit Ethernet board can transmit and receive.

man (manual) page

An online document that describeshow to usea particular Linux command. Alsocalled

reference page.

NIS

Network Information Service,a distributeddatabase mechanism foruser accounts, host

names, mail aliases, and so on.

PCI

Peripheral Component Interconnect, a bus speciﬁcation. The PCI bus is a

high-performance local bus used to connect peripherals to memory and a

microprocessor. Many vendors offer devices that plug into the PCI bus.

PCI Express

PeripheralComponentInterconnect Express(PCIExpress)isacomputerexpansion card

standard introduced by Intel corporation in 2004 and is still widely used today.

reference page

See man (manual) page.

TCP/IP

A standard networking protocol that is included in the Linux software.