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Glossary
many-to-many A source NAT operation wherein a pool of NAT addresses is assigned to a
limited number of outgoing connections.
many-to-one A NAT operation whereby multiple IP addresses are assigned the same IP
address.
master The member of an HA cluster that coordinates the workload of an active-active
cluster or performs the workload of an active-backup cluster and stores the
primary configuration for the cluster.
maximum
transmission unit
See MTU.
MD5 Message-Digest algorithm 5. A hash algorithm used to create digital signatures.
MD5 is a one-way hash function that transforms and condenses data into a
fixed string of digits called a message digest. A variety of protocols use MD5
to check a message’s data integrity as well as authenticate the sender. Some
protocols, such as EAP-MD5, require passwords to be transmitted as hashes
rather than in plaintext. For more information, see RFC 1321 at http://
www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1321.txt.
member A module that is part of an HA cluster.
metric A value between 0 and 15 that indicates the distance to the destination address.
The further a router is from the destination, the higher the metric.
MIB Management Information Base. A set of network objects that can be managed
with SNMP. For more information, see RFC 1213 at http://www.ietf.org/rfc/
rfc1213.txt.
Microsoft
Windows VPN
client
Software that can be installed on a Windows workstation that allows remote
VPN access to the corporate network.
MIME header
flood
A type of attack or malfunction in which a message contains and excessive
amount Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) headers. A request
with a large number of headers can degrade server performance, possibly
causing a DoS.
misaligned time
stamp
A malformed packet in which the timestamp is not aligned on a 32-bit bound-
ary. The timestamp wraps around the boundary, so that the timestamp indica-
tors within a packet do not align with one another.
mirroring, local See local mirroring.
mirroring, remote See remote mirroring
.