NBX Manual

Glossary
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Glossary-6
Media Access Control (MAC) address
Media Access Control (MAC) address. A value in the Medium Access Control sublayer of
the IEEE/ISO/ANSI LAN architecture that uniquely identifies an individual station that
implements a single point of physical attachment to a local area network (LAN).
MFIOB. See multifunction I/O board (MFIOB)
.
MLAD. See MULTILAN Attachment Device (MLAD).
MLSRV. See MULTILAN File Server (MLSRV).
multicast. A technique that allows copies of a single packet to be passed to a selected subset
of all possible destinations. Some hardware (for example, Ethernet and token-ring
adapters) supports multicast by allowing a network interface to belong to one or more
multicast groups. A special form of multicast is broadcast
, wherein the subset of
machines to receive a copy of a packet consists of the entire set.
multifunction I/O board (MFIOB). A ServerNet addressable controller (SAC)
that contains
ServerNet addressable controllers (SACs) for SCSI and Ethernet; a service processor;
ServerNet links to the processor, to the two ServerNet adapter slots, and to one of the
ServerNet expansion board (SEB) slots; and connections to the serial maintenance bus
(SMB), which connects components within an enclosure to the service processor.
MULTILAN. A hardware and software product that allows users to connect their local area
networks (LANs) to Compaq NonStop systems.
MULTILAN 6530 WINDOW. The 6530 WINDOW API provides NetBIOS-compatible
communications between a Compaq host-based application and a workstation-based
6530 terminal emulator, such as PCT or Outside View.
MULTILAN Attachment Device (MLAD). A unit that provides the interface for adapter
cards through the MULTILAN controller in order to communicate with workstations
over the network.
MULTILAN File Server (MLSRV). A server program on a Compaq system that is used to
maintain DOS files on disk. MLSRV also provides workstation access to the NonStop
Kernel File System and Spooler.
MULTILAN Resource Manager (MLRM). The MULTILAN Resource Manager provides
security and dynamic configuration services for workstation sessions.
MULTILAN WSPTP. The Workstation Process-To-Process API provides
NetBIOS-compatible communications between Compaq host-based applications and
workstation-based applications.
NAMES. A nonsensitive command
that displays the names and types of all objects or a
subset of objects known to the NonStop IPX/SPX subsystem.
NCP. See NetWare Core Protocol (NCP)
.
NetBIOS. See Network Basic Input/Output System (NetBIOS)
.