Appendix . Acronyms and Abbreviations
This appendix identifies abbreviations, acronyms, and initialisms used in this book and in the internetworking industry.
Many of these acronyms and other terms are also described in the Cisco Internetworking Terms and Acronyms resource, available at http://www.cisco.com/univercd/cc/td/doc/cisintwk/ita/.
Acronym | Expanded Term |
|---|---|
6-to-4 | IPv6-to-IPv4 |
ABR | Area Border Router |
ACK | 1. acknowledge |
2. acknowledgment | |
3. acknowledgment bit in a TCP segment | |
ACL | access control list |
AD | advertised distance |
AFI | authority and format identifier |
AfriNIC | African Network Information Centre |
AH | Authentication Header |
ALG | application layer gateway |
ANSI | American National Standards Institute |
AON | Application-Oriented Networking |
API | application programming interface ... |
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