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DAPI Destination Access Point Identifier
DCVPN Data Center Virtual Private Network
Default Gateway The IP address of a router that a host can use as its first hop when the host does not
know a more specific route to a given destination.
Default Route A manually configured (static) route whose destination is 0.0.0.0/0.0.0.0 and therefore
matches every packet’s destination. A router uses a default route to forward packets that
do not match a more specific route.
DHCP Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (RFC 2131, RFC3315). A mechanism for
allocating IP addresses dynamically so that addresses can be reused when hosts no
longer need them.
DHCP Server Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol Servers are servers that grant the address and do
parameter assignment to requested clients in the network. Current interest is that these
servers provide TFTP server and boot file information.
DLL Data Link Layer
DNS Server Domain Name System servers that provide the IP address mapping to the name of the
hosts.
DSCP Differentiated Services Code Point
DTL Device Transformation Layer
DTP Dynamic Trunking Protocol
EAP Extensible Authentication Protocol
EAPOL Extensible Authentication Protocol over LAN
ECMP Equal Cost Multiple Paths
EEE Energy Efficient Ethernet (from the IEEE 802.3az Energy Efficient Ethernet Task Force
and IEEE 802.3az Energy Efficient Ethernet Study Group).
EFP Egress Filter Processor
FDB Forwarding Database
HAPI Hardware Application Programming Interface
Host Interface An IP interface that is not a routing interface. Only locally-originated packets are sent on
a host interface. Only packets with a local destination are received. Host interfaces do
not participate in dynamic routing protocols.
HTTP Hypertext Transfer Protocol
HTTPS Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure
IAS Internal Authentication Server
IFP Ingress Filter Processor
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Acronym Definition