SMC Networks SMC TigerStack III SMC6824MPE - Manual (Page 561)

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LOSSARY
Glossary-5
Link Aggregation
See Port Trunk.
Link Aggregation Control Protocol (LACP)
Allows ports to automatically negotiate a trunked link with LACP-configured ports
on another device.
Management Information Base (MIB)
An acronym for Management Information Base. It is a set of database objects that
contains information about a specific device.
MD5 Message-Digest Algorithm
A process whereby the switch filters incoming multicast frames for services for
which no attached host has registered, or forwards them to all ports contained
within the designated multicast VLAN group.
Multicast Switching
A process whereby the SMC6824MPE switch filters incoming multicast frames for
services for which no attached host has registered, or forwards them to all ports
contained within the designated multicast VLAN group.
Network Time Protocol (NTP)
NTP provides the mechanisms to synchronize time across the network. The time
servers operate in a hierarchical-master-slave configuration in order to synchronize
local clocks within the subnet and to national time standards via wire or radio.
Out-of-Band Management
Management of the network from a station not attached to the network.
Port Authentication
See IEEE 802.1x.
Port Mirroring
A method whereby data on a target port is mirrored to a monitor port for
troubleshooting with a logic analyzer or RMON probe. This allows data on the
target port to be studied unobstructively.