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NetXtreme II
User Guide
March 2014
provided to assist IT professionals during the deployment and troubleshooting of system applications that require network
fault tolerance and load balancing.
GLOSSARY
Table 1: Glossary
Item
Definition
ARP
Address Resolution Protocol
BACS
Broadcom Advanced Control Suite
BASP
Broadcom Advanced Server Program (intermediate driver)
DNS
domain name service
G-ARP
Gratuitous Address Resolution Protocol
Generic Trunking (FEC/GEC)/802.3ad-Draft Static
Switch-dependent load balancing and failover type of team
in which the intermediate driver manages outgoing traffic
and the switch manages incoming traffic.
HSRP
Hot Standby Router Protocol
ICMP
Internet Control Message Protocol
IGMP
Internet Group Management Protocol
IP
Internet Protocol
IPv6
Version 6 of the IP Protocol
iSCSI
Internet Small Computer Systems Interface
L2
Layer 2. Used to describe network traffic that is not
offloaded, and where hardware only performs Layer 2
operations on the traffic. Layer 3 (IP) and Layer 4 (TCP)
protocols are processed in software.
L4
Layer 4. Used to describe network traffic that is heavily
offloaded to the hardware, where much of the Layer 3 (IP)
and Layer 4 (TCP) processing is done in the hardware to
improve performance.
LACP
Link Aggregation Control Protocol
Link Aggregation (802.3ad)
Switch-dependent load balancing and failover type of team
with LACP in which the intermediate driver manages
outgoing traffic and the switch manages incoming traffic.
LOM
LAN on Motherboard
MAC
media access control
NDIS
Network Driver Interface Specification
NLB
Network Load Balancing (Microsoft)
PXE
Preboot Execution Environment
RAID
redundant array of inexpensive disks
Smart Load Balancing™ and Failover
Switch-independent failover type of team in which the
primary team member handles all incoming and outgoing
traffic while the standby team member is idle until a failover
event (for example, loss of link occurs). The intermediate
driver (BASP) manages incoming/outgoing traffic.
Smart Load Balancing (SLB)
Switch-independent load balancing and failover type of
team, in which the intermediate driver manages outgoing/
incoming traffic.
TCP
Transmission Control Protocol
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