NFT Network Fault Tolerance. A team of network ports that transmits and receives on
only one port with all other ports in standby.
NIC Network Interface Card. Synonymous with network adapter.
NIC teaming A phrase referring to HP Integrity Network Adapter Teaming.
OSI Model Open Systems Interconnect Model. The seven-layer model developed by the
International Standards Organization (ISO) that outlines the mechanisms used by
networked devices to communicate with each other.
ping A type of packet used to validate connectivity with another network device. The
packet asks another network device to respond to validate connectivity, a kind of
“echo.” Ping packets for IP are accomplished using the ICMP protocol.
PortFast A special setting used mainly by Cisco switches and HP ProCurve switches to bypass
the block, listen, and learn stages of Spanning Tree on a particular port. Port Fast
ports still transmit BPDUs.
PVST+ Cisco’s Per VLAN Spanning Tree Plus. A Cisco proprietary Spanning Tree protocol
that runs Spanning Tree on each individual VLAN.
RAID Redundant Array of Independent Disks. Disk drive technology used for redundancy,
load balancing, or a combination of both.
SLB Switch-assisted Load Balancing. Also known as FEC/GEC. A team of network ports
that load balances transmits and receives on all ports.
STA Spanning Tree Algorithm (IEEE 802.1D)
Switch MAC
table
A list of MAC addresses and associated ports that are used by a switch to transfer
frames between attached devices. Also referred to as a CAM table.
Teamed port Any network adapter port that has been added to a team.
TLB Transmit Load Balancing. Was known as Adaptive Load Balancing (ALB). A team
of network ports that receives on one port but load balances transmitted IP traffic on
all ports. Other protocol traffic is transmitted by a single port.
Virtual Local
Area Connection,
Virtual network
adapter, Virtual
NIC interface,
Virtual NIC port
All of these terms refer to a team. A team, comprising two or more real ports,
represents itself to the host operating system as a single virtual network adapter/NIC
interface/NIC port.
XML eXtensible Markup Language. Used by teaming to import or export team
configurations.
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