Token-Ring Adapter Installation and Support Guide

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LAN Manager (LANMAN) process.
LAN Manager (LANMAN) process. The LANMAN process is provided as part of the
SLSA subsystem. The NonStop™ Kernel persistence manager starts and manages the
LANMAN process, which it starts as a generic process that runs as a process pair in the
host system processors. The LANMAN process starts and manages the SLSA subsystem
objects and also starts the LAN monitor (LANMON) process, assigning ownership of
Ethernet ServerNet addressable controllers (SACs) to the LANMON processes in the
system through an access list. SCF commands are directed to the LANMAN processes
for configuring and managing the SLSA subsystem and the Ethernet adapters. The
LANMAN process is named $ZZLAN, which is built by $ZZKRN and maintained by
the $ZPM persistence manager. See also ServerNet LAN Systems Access (SLSA)
subsystem and LAN Monitor (LANMON) process.
LANMON. See LAN Monitor (LANMON) process.
LAN Monitor (LANMON) process. The LAN monitor process is provided as part of the
SLSA subsystem. It is started and managed by the LAN Manager (LANMAN) process
and started at cold load. One LAN monitor process runs in each processor of the host
system. Each LAN monitor process has ownership of the adapters controlled by the
SLSA subsystem. The LAN manager process assigns adapter ownership. See ServerNet
LAN Systems Access (SLSA) subsystem and LAN Manager (LANMAN) process.
LIF. See logical interface (LIF).
LED. See light-emitting diode (LED)
.
light-emitting diode (LED). A semiconductor device that emits light from its surface.
Indicator lights are composed of LEDs.
local area network (LAN). (1) The cables, electrical interfaces, workstations, and other
devices that are interconnected and that are physically located in close proximity to each
other. One or more LANs can be connected to the system such that the LAN users can
access the system as if their workstations were connected directly to it. (2) A network
that is located in a small geographical area, whose communications technology provides
a high-bandwidth, low-cost medium to which low-cost nodes can be connected.
logical interface (LIF). The interface that allows an application or another process to
communicate with data communications hardware.
MAC address. See media access control (MAC) address
.
media access control (MAC) address. A MAC address is 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 LAN.
Mbps. See megabits per second (Mbps)
.
megabits per second (Mbps). A data rate equal to 1,048,576 bits per second.