Dell Emulex Family of Adapters - Manual (Page 813)

Emulex Drivers Version 10.2 for Linux User Manual P010081-01A Rev. A
1. Introduction
Abbreviations
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FC Fibre Channel
FC-SP Fibre Channel Security Protocol
FC-AL Fibre Channel - Arbitrated Loop
FCoE Fibre Channel over Ethernet
FCP Fibre Channel Protocol
FSB front side bus
GCC GNU Compiler Collection
Gb/s gigabits per second
GPG GNU Privacy Guard standard
GRO generic receive offload
GRUB grand unified bootloader
GUI graphical user interface
HBA host bus adapter
HCA host channel adapter
hex hexadecimal
INTx PCIe legacy interrupts, where “x” is variable
IOCB input/output control block
IOPs I/O operations per second
IOV I/O virtualization
IP Internet Protocol
IPL initial program load
IQN iSCSI qualified name
IRQ interrupt request
iSCSI internet Small Computer System Interface
ISNS internet storage name service
KB kilobyte (1024 bytes)
KVM kernel-based virtual machine
LACP Link Aggregation Control Protocol
LBA logical block address
LDTO link down timeout
LLC logical link control
LOM LAN on motherboard
LPFC LightPulse Fibre Channel
LRO large receive offload
LUN logical unit number
MAC media access control address
MBR master boot record