April 2002
Intermediate to advanced
384 pages
7h 3m
English
This glossary lists key terms, abbreviations, and acronyms with their definitions and indicates whether the term is applicable to a particular protocol, routing environment, or “context.”
| Term | Context | Description |
|---|---|---|
| (*,G) route entry | PIM-SM | Group members join the RP tree for a particular group. This tree is represented by (*,G) multicast route entries along the shared tree branches between the RP and the group members. |
| ABR | OSPF | area border router—Routers within a nonbackbone area that connect to area 0. |
| AFI | MBGP | address family identifier—A number referencing network protocols. |
| AFI | IS-IS | authority and format indicator—A byte in NSAP format used to describe the organization that assigned the address and the meaning of the fields that ... |
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